Classification of the Law

Question 1

Name 3 sources of law

Answer 1

• Statutes
• Case law
• International conventions

Question 2

What is meant by the term “common law”?

Answer 2

• law ‘common to the whole of England’
• the law that comes from the decisions of the judges
• the law of the common law courts (as distinguished from the case law of the courts of equity)
• ‘the common law’ is English law in its widest sense, including legislation, custom and equity. It may even mean the law of other countries that have adopted English law as a starting point (you will often hear these described as common law legal systems, to compare them from civil law legal systems such as France and Spain

Question 3

What Courts deal with Civil Disputes?

Answer 3

The Magistrates Court, The County Court, The Crown Court, the Court of Appeal