The French Legal System

Аннотация

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader - be they a practitioner, a law student, a litigant, or simply a non-lawyer with an introduction to the fundamental structures and concepts of the French legal system. It does not seek to provide detailed information on specific areas of law such as contract or company law, nor to provide a step by step guide to following a case through the courts, but rather to familiarise the reader with sources of French law, the structure of the courts and professions, and the characteristics of the legal process, while at the same time indicating some of the main differences between the English legal system and the French.