- Subjects
- Published
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons
[2011]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 192 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780470930885
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- 1. The Administration of Law
- 1.1. The nature of law
- 1.2. Divisions of law
- 1.3. Evidence in civil and criminal cases
- 1.4. The common law
- 1.5. Equity
- 1.6. The sources of law
- 1.7. European Community law
- 1.8. The court system in England and Wales
- 1.9. The Technology and Construction Court (TCC)
- 1.10. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- 1.11. The European Court of Human Rights
- 1.12. Tribunals
- 1.13. Arbitration
- 1.14. Personnel of the law
- 1.15. Judicial officers
- 1.16. Juries
- 1.17. Court procedure
- 1.18. Procedure in civil actions
- 1.19. The Human Rights Act (HRA)
- 2. The Law of Contract
- 2.1. General principles
- 2.2. Formalities
- 2.3. Standard form contracts
- 2.4. The essential elements of a valid contract
- 2.5. Terms of a contract
- 2.6. Vitiating factors
- 2.7. Privity of contract
- 2.8. Exemption clauses
- 2.9. Discharge of a contract
- 2.10. Damages
- 2.11. Limitation of actions
- 2.12. Equitable remedies
- 2.13. Agency
- 2.14. Business organisations
- 2.15. Forms of contract in the construction industry
- 3. The Law of Tort
- 3.1. The nature of tort
- 3.2. Liability in tort
- 3.3. General defences in tort
- 3.4. Tort and human rights
- 3.5. Vicarious liability
- 3.6. Negligence
- 3.7. Nuisance
- 3.8. Trespass
- 3.9. Defamation
- 3.10. Breach of statutory duty
- 3.11. Employers liability
- 3.12. Product liability
- 3.13. Remedies and limitation periods
- 4. Land Law
- 4.1. The two types of property
- 4.2. What is land?
- 4.3. Ownership of land
- 4.4. Proving ownership of land
- 4.5. Acquiring ownership by adverse possession
- 4.6. Third party rights in land
- 4.7. Easements
- 4.8. Mortgages 206
- 4.9. Restrictive covenants
- 4.10. The enforceability of third party rights
- 4.11. Commonhold
- 5. The Law of Landlord and Tenant
- 5.1. The leasehold estate
- 5.2. Types of leases
- 5.3. Essential elements of a valid lease
- 5.4. Formalities for the creation of leases
- 5.5. Termination of leases at common law
- 5.6. Covenants in leases
- 5.7. Rent
- 5.8. Rent review
- 5.9. Repairing covenants
- 5.10. User covenants
- 5.11. Covenants against alterations
- 5.12. Assignment and sub-letting
- 5.13. Enforceability of covenants in leases
- 5.14. Remedies for breach of covenant
- 5.15. The statutory codes
- 5.16. Private sector residential tenancies
- 5.17. Business tenancies
- 6. Public Law and Regulation
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Judicial review
- 6.3. Building regulations
- 6.4. Planning law
- 6.5. Environmental impact assessment
- 6.6. Water pollution
- 6.7. Contaminated land
- 6.8. Waste management law
- 6.9. Emissions from buildings
- 6.10. Health and safety at work
- Index