Nicholas Hopkins – författare

McFarlane, Hopkins, and Nield's Land Law is the most succinct, analytical textbook available in this subject area. These experienced and respected authors have used their unique approach to land law to provide a consistent structure with which students and lecturers can tackle the topics. The approach arms students with the tools needed to analyse content covered in classes and exams autonomously by demonstrating how to consider rules in isolation before looking at the full picture. This method helps students make links across topics. The concise treatment allows students to concentrate on building an in-depth, sophisticated grasp of the core principles. The authors' direct writing style and contextual outlook guides readers through the depth and detail and gives lucidity to abstract rules. The use of significant cases to exemplify rules in practice and diagrams for visual learners gives additional clarity to concepts that are particularly difficult to imagine. Students are encouraged to test their knowledge by answering end-of-chapter questions and to widen their research by referring to the resources suggested in the further reading lists accompanying each chapter. Digital formats and resourcesThis edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks- The Online Resources include the following materials for students:* Web links to useful sites containing further information on chapter-specific topics* Self-test multiple-choice questions with instant feedback* Guidance on how to answer end of chapter questions* Updates on legal developments in land law

Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach their land law course with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts to offer students a full account of the subject.Using the popular Text, Cases and Materials format the authors take a critical approach to the subject, presenting thought-provoking analysis of the leading case-law in the area and inviting students to develop their own analytical skills ready for exams. The book can be used as a stand-alone resource, or as a complement to Land Law: Core Text, written by the same authors.Covering a broad range of topics, the authors have used their unique approach to land law to provide a consistent structure with which students and lecturers can tackle the subject. This approach arms students with the tools needed to analyse content autonomously by seeing how individual rules fit into a broader structure, leading students towards a comprehensive and advanced understanding of this complex subject area.Digital formats and resourcesThe fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksA range of resources for this book are available online:- Self-test questions with feedback- Exclusive online chapters- Guidance on answering end-of-chapter questions- Links to further research and websites

Substantial case detail, choice extracts, and sophisticated analysis.Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.Key features:· Combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to provide a thought-provoking and contextualized account of the subject· Helps students to understand how rules work in isolation as well as how they interlink due to the authors' unique approach to land law, enabling students to think critically and with a high level of analysis · Provides detailed discussion of key land law cases, drawing together extracts from leading judgments, responses to controversial decisions, and the authors' own opinion to create a well-rounded account· Takes a thorough, detailed, and critical approach, providing a framework to support students throughout their course· Begins each chapter with a discussion of 'central issues,' providing an at-a-glance account of the key debates and principles shaping each area of law· Includes self-test questions with guidance on how to approach them alongside further research notes in each chapter to support independent studyNew to this edition:· A full, comprehensive update to cases and other new developments· New cases considered in this edition include decisions of the Supreme Court, such as R (on the application of SC) v SS for Work and Pensions, Wolverhampton CC v London Gypsies and Travellers (both Chapter 4), Guest v Guest (Chapter 10), and Byers v Saudi National Bank (Chapter 17); and of the Court of Appeal, such as Pennistone Holdings v Rock Ferry Waterfront Trust (Chapter 5), Hudson v Hathway (Chapters 8 and 10), White v Amirtharaja (Chapter 9), and Faiz v Burnley CC (Chapter 21)· The chapter on proprietary estoppel has been restructured in the light of the Supreme Court's decision in Guest v Guest· New academic writing, regulatory changes, and proposed new legislation (for example in relation to flat ownership) are all featured· Diagrams have been reviewed to ensure clarity and consistencyThe sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access, along with self-test questions, guidance for answering end-of-chapter questions, further research notes, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks.