Legal Systems and Skills 5th ed

The most practical foundation for law students, combining content on the English legal system, academic and professional skills, and commercial awareness and employability.

Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students, equipping them with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and onto employment.

• Accessible and engaging, with a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge and think critically about the law
• Learning supported by annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams, providing visual representations of concepts and processes
• Comprehensive content on employability, including CV preparation and transferable skills, alongside features like 'Practice tip', 'What the professionals say' and 'Selling your skills'
• Expanded coverage on sentencing, the judiciary, new routes into the legal professions, and legal technology
• New content on retained EU law, following post-Brexit changes
• New chapter on revision and assessment including topics on SBAQs, online assessment, and physical and mental wellbeing