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ACCA Paper F4 Corporate and business law (English) Part A Essential elements of the legal system Chapter 1 The English legal system 1 What is law? 2 Types of law 2.1 Common law and equity 2.2 Statute law 2.3 Private law and public law 2.4 Criminal and civil law 2.4.1 Criminal law 2.4.2 Civil law 2.4.3 Distinction between criminal and civil cases 3 The system of courts 3.1 The civil court structure 3.2 The criminal court structure 3.3 Magistrates’ courts 3.3.1 Appeals 3.3.2 Personnel 3.4 The County Court 3.4.1 Appeals 3.4.2 Personnel 3.5 Civil Procedure Rules 3.5.1 Tracking 3.5.2 Case management 3.6 The Crown Court 3.6.1 Appeals 3.6.2 Personnel 3.7 The High Court 3.7.1 Queen’s Bench Division 3.7.2 Chancery Division 3.7.3 Family Division 3.7.4 Appeals 3.7.5 Personnel 3.8 The Court of Appeal 3.8.1 Civil Division 3.8.2 Criminal Division 3.8.3 Appeals 3.8.4 Personnel 3.9 The House of Lords 3.9.1 The Supreme Court for the United Kingdom 3.10 The European Court of Human Rights 3.11 The European Court of Justice 3.12 The Privy Council 4 Tribunals 4.1 The tribunal system 4.2 Employment tribunals 4.2.1 Composition 4.2.2 Jurisdiction 4.2.3 Procedure 4.2.4 Appeal 4.2.5 Advantages and disadvantages of tribunals Chapter 2 Sources of English law 1 Case law and precedent 1.1 Common law and equity 1.2 Doctrine of judicial precedent 1.3 Law reports 1.4 Ratio decidendi 1.5 Distinguishing the facts 1.6 Status of the court 1.7 Court of Appeal exception 1.8 Persuasive precedents 1.9 Avoidance of a binding precedent 1.10 The advantages and disadvantages of precedent 2 Legislation 2.1 Parliamentary sovereignty 2.2 Types of legislation 2.3 Parliamentary procedure 2.4 Advantages and disadvantages of statute law 2.5 Delegated legislation 2.5.1 Control over delegated legislation 2.5.2 Advantages and disadvantages 3 Statutory interpret