Since study of the English legal system underpins other legal study, it is usually taught at the start of the overall course. This presents some unique problems – the subject is typically encountered by students experiencing their first taste of undergraduate level law, who are only just beginning to learn how to think, write and analyse like lawyers. Therefore, you will need greater help in beginning to formulate your essay-writing and problem-solving technique. This book will aim to give you some guidance in those areas in specific relation to the English legal system. If you have already studied law at A-level, don’t fall into the trap that so many students do of assuming that you’ve ‘done all this before’ and neglecting your studies on English legal systems in favour of some newer or seemingly more exciting topics: the level required of an undergraduate is higher and you will be expected to go into greater depth than in previous study.

由于英语法律体系的学习是其他法律学习的基础，因此通常在整个课程开始时讲授。这就带来了一些独特的问题——这门课程通常是学生们第一次体验本科法律课程时遇到的，他们才刚刚开始像律师一样学习如何思考、写作和分析。因此，你需要更多的帮助来开始你的论文写作和解决问题的技巧。这本书的目的是给你一些指导，在这些领域的具体关系到英国的法律制度。如果你已经学过A级法律，不要像很多学生那样，认为你“以前做过这些”，而忽视了你对英国法律制度的研究，而偏重于一些新的或似乎更令人兴奋的课题：本科所要求的水平更高，你将比以前的研究更深入。