The Department for Education’s Guide to the Law for School Governors was replaced by the Governance Handbook, which was itself replaced by two separate Governance Guides in 2024.
There is one Governance Guide for maintained schools and one Governance Guide for academies.
More info on the Governance Guides is available here.
The very last version of the Guide to the Law was published in May 2012 and can be read on the National Archives website.
It is worth a read as a great deal of information was cut to shorten the Governance Handbook and Governance Guides and some useful bits of guidance were removed, but bear in mind that some of the legislation has changed in the years since it was published.
You can also read the very last version of the Governance Handbook.