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2 ‘The significance of Courts’
Fiona Cownie, Anthony Bradney and Mandy Burton
Chapter 2 from Cownie, Bradney & Burton: The English Legal
System in Context. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
fourth edition ISBN 978-0199289882.
This reading relates to the Common law reasoning and
institutions subject guide, Chapter 3.
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