Civil Code lawyers are often familiar with some of the English legal terminology and statutory provisions relating to their own specialist areas of legal practice such as, for example, banking and copyright. However, this familiarity is not always supported by a wider general legal vocabulary or any real knowledge or understanding of the key elements and principles of English Common Law, the “building blocks” of the legal system.
Without a wide comprehensive knowledge of the legal terminology, how it is used, and how it forms an essential part of the general law, it is not possible to fully understand English statutes. read more...