Includes index.

Contents : Part one : Legal system : General introduction -- Classification / division of law -- Sources of law -- The Courts and the practitioners -- An overview of the criminal procedure in Ghana -- The civil justice system -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Access to justice and legal aid in Ghana -- Part Two : Legal method : The doctrine of judicial precedent (stare decisis) -- Teaching case analysis : the solomon's judgement as case study -- Theories of law -- Statutory interpretation -- Legal english : rules of good writing -- Writing style : referencing citation, parenthetical and punctuation -- Brevity as persuasion tool -- Legal reasoning -- Basic introduction to selected disciplines of law.