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I'm on the LLB course and...

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... I've been given a take home test that if I don't pass I will be off the course. I bought a series of books in the summer leading up to the start of the course, highly rated ones I'll have you know. All those books are completely useless. But not this one! (Actually that's a bit harsh on the other books, they're good for contextualising my learning.) Anyway, back to the point; if this book was a pint it would be a John Smiths i.e NO NONSENSE. Anything you want to know it tells you, and it doesn't faff about like the other books. If you want to do well on the LLB you cannot depend on the law express series, nevertheless it's style goes straight for the jugular of law, so you're not sitting there trying to cut the wheat from the chaff for hours. It's like the mate who tells you how it is, and everyone needs a mate like that. If you don't have a mate like that then you need to get one. Failing that, get this book. Even if you don't do law. There... I've said what I have to say. Oh and another thing. I would like a threesome with Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski. Just to say thanks.

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I was surprised by how much I liked this book.. Recommended texts are so often dull and unhelpful, or don't match your syllabus...But this one was great. It was clear, and each part linked nicely with the next. It wasn't concise, but then law books do not tend to be! A good basis for learning in detail about the English Legal System.

Its not just for revision

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Don't tell anyone but... I bought this instead of the set textbook. Let's be honest. How many of you actually read all the boring bumph in English Legal Systems textbooks? It has to be the driest subject in the world and it is written about and taught by people who cannot be bothered to make it interesting. I tried to read the first chapter of the dire Legal Systems book that we'd been told to read and I just thought life is too short for this. So I took the book back to the bookshop and got my refund and bought this little lifesaver instead and had money left over to buy other stuff. It is cheap, to the point and reasonably interesting. I managed every tutorial on this book and my exam and I did fine. There was never anything that I needed to know that wasn't in here - in fact, I came up with a couple of points in one tutorial that nobody else had from reading the set text. I used it for my coursework too and got a decent mark. There are clues on how to do coursework and exams in here that you don't get in the other books and pointers to things to read that will help you with the content if you need more detail. There is a website that goes with the book too that has tests on so you know how much you know or don't know. So buy this English Legal System Express book. It is a fraction of the price and a fraction of the boredom of the other books and it tells you everything you need to know.

Couldn't really get on with it.

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Of all my subjects English Legal Systems is the one that is a bit of a struggle. Not because it is difficult but because it just seems to dull. My lecturer seems bored herself which doesn't help and neither did recommending this dire book to us. It definitely falls into the category of one of these set texts that you buy because you are told to, try to read once or twice and then abandon to sit in pristine condition on your bookshelf ready to sell at the second hand book sale as 'no markings or highlighting but a really useful book' in the hope that some poor unsuspecting first year will buy it and at least give you some money back. I don't think that Legal Systems need to be complicated and detailed. It needs to be clear and what it really needs is to be linked with other subjects. Has anyone every mentioned precedent to you in any subject other than Legal Systems? My advice would either to buy a heavyweight book like the book by T. Ingram or to buy one of the short snappy ones that give you all that you need in one bitesize and relatively painfree chunck like the Law Express one. But whatever you do buy, give this one a miss. I think that all students should read the at least one chapter of any book before they buy it so that they can weed out the dross rather than unquestioningly buying stuff off the reading list.

A Law Student's Best Friend!	Customer Rating:
Fantastic book that allowed me to 'cram' revise in a shorter period that I should have left for revision! A well set out book, it actually made my study for Foundations of English Legal System far easier than using my uni notes. Companion website where you can test yourself is a great bonus too. Would recommend this book to any Law student