Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, 6th Edition

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 study

New 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 consistency