ABSTRACT

This and the following two chapters consider where law comes from and where students of law have to look to fi nd it. As was stated in Chapter 1, in civil law systems one only has to look in the appropriate code to fi nd the law relating to that area. However, in a common law system one has not only to look at the legislation, both primary and secondary, made by Parliament, but one also has to look in the cases for the judicial statements that actually constitute that common law. Nor should it be forgotten that much of English law is now a restatement of the law of the European Union.