1. Introduction to the English legal system and the courts -- 2. The courts, small business and the law-making process -- 3. The legal profession -- 4. Alternative dispute resolution -- 5. European Community law and human rights -- 6. Comparative legal systems : civil law, US law, Japanese law,...

"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the...