Product Description

Law of Contract provides a clear and engaging explanation of the main principles of contract law.  This book guides students through each topic, explaining how the law currently operates but also considering debate on reform to provide an understanding of how the law may develop.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189763 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

From the Back Cover

'This is an excellent text which provides a thoughtful and comprehensive account of the law of contract.'

                     Review of previous edition - Student Law Journal, January 2006

Paul Richard’s Law of Contract, now in its eighth edition, is a trusted, clear and engaging explanation of the main principles of contract law.  This area of law is growing in complexity and importance, and it is essential that you gain a firm grasp of the main principles.  This book lights a clear path through the various issues, explaining the law as it stands but also considering proposals for reform so that an understanding of the development of the law is achieved. 

This new edition has been  revised to include recent developments in the law including:

-The Law Commission report and suggested bill on unfair contract terms. 

-New case law has been integrated throughout.  

Key Features:

-Clearly-distinguished case summaries help you to quickly recognise the key cases and differentiate them from surrounding commentary

-New colour text design and larger format enable you to use the text with ease

-Chapter summaries highlight the main points covered in each chapter, cementing your understanding

About the author

Paul Richards is Head of the Department of Law, University of Huddersfield. He has many years' experience as a lecturer in contract, land law and trusts, and is an examiner and moderator for various bodies.

www.mylawchamber.co.uk/richards.  This text is supported by a MyLawChamber website including:

For students: regular case and legislation updates, weblinks, interactive self-test questions, practice assessment questions, an online glossary and key terms flashcards.

For lecturers: a testbank of multiple choice questions which can be used to assess students' progress.

Case Navigator powered by LexisNexis

Visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/casenavigator for unique online support that helps improve case reading and analysis skills in Contract Law. 

The LexisNexis element of Case Navigator is only available to those who currently subscribe to LexisNexis Butterworths services.  The Publishers are endeavouring to make Case Navigator available from early Summer 2007.

Customer Reviews

Great!
Love this book. It is clearly set out, details each case seperately as well as within the text, has a really clear summary section after each chapter and is really easy to read. Highly recommended!

Its strength is its greates weakness
I purchased this book as a part of the bundle for first year law students. The advantage of this book is that at the end of most chapters there is an outline of the chapter. Unfortunately the author does not include what page(s) the information can be found. Furthermore it is written in easy to understand language. However the ability of the author to write the chapters in easy to understand language is also its greatest weakness. For example Chapter 3 which discusses promissory estoppel. The author attempts to explain the concept in easy to understand language but their approach makes the concept difficult to understand. Instead of being able to grasp the concept right away. It took me several re-reads of the section "Consideration must be sufficient though not necessarily adequate" before understanding the concept. Another example is chapter 2 and the discussion of "offer to treat". The author did not adequately explain "offer to treat" and it required me to re-read the section several time until I understood what the author was trying to say.

Another issue that I found with this book is how it is layed out and in particular the lack of visual cues to the reader. Other textbooks that I have used breaks down each subject into sub-sections e.g. Chapter 2 Offer, then may 2.1 Introduction, 2.1.1 elements of an offer. By using this type of format or a similar format it cues the reader how what they are reading ties into the chapter. Unfortunately this author makes minimal use of visual cues for the reader and the lack of cues makes the book confusing to understand, at time. Furthermore other textbooks that I have read have taken great advantage of cues by summarizing key points and some have included definitions of bolded words in the left hand margin.

In my honest opinion this textbook and the five book bundle that this book is a part of is not worth the money. This book along with the bundle is most likely suited for someone who has been out of school for 20 years, needs something easy to read, and is not bothered by a book that does not give off visual cues to make the information easier to understand. Any who is considering buying this book is probably better off buying a different textbook