Bringing together a mass of material from a wide variety of sources, this book provides the fools with which any observer of the English legal system can discover how it functions now, and the ideas and proposals for reform. This edition includes the report of the Royal Commission of Criminal Justice, the abolition of the right to silence, the Government's Green paper on legal aid, the Woolf Repost on civil justice, the 1995 revision of PACE Codes, Criminal Cases Review Commission, and the new disclosed rules under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill.