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academiCSuccessful Legal WritingTreitel’s Law of ContractThirteenth EditionEdwin PeelSecond EditionEdwina Higgins, Laura TathamNEWNEWLegal writing is an essential skill that all students needto master if they want to do well both in their studiesand in their future careers. Successful Legal Writing isa practical guide enabling students to grasp the skillsthey need to succeed during their degree studies or inpreparation for the Common Professional Examination• Uses worked examples and exercises to guidestudents through the legal writing process• Focuses on improving writing skills in bothassignments and exams• Offers guidance on how to write a case note, howto write a critical review and how to prepare anddraft a dissertation• Presents the information in a step-by-step format,leading students through the world of legal writingfrom understanding good and bad writing toassessing their own strengths and weakness• Details at the start of each chapter the key learningpoints and rounds each chapter off with a briefsummary of what’s been learnt• Contains shaded tip boxes highlighting importantpoints to remember• Uses diagrams and flowcharts to help studentsassimilate and retain the information• Provides questions and reflective exercises to helpstudents assess their progress and identify theirlearning needs• Supplies answers to frequently asked questionsthroughout the work• Demonstrates how lecturers mark papers andexams to give students an idea of what level theyshould be aiming for• New edition includes colour and a new text designto make it more accessible and readableSweet & Maxwell UKSep 2011 9780414041844 PaperbackThis guide has become the indispensible sourceof reference and argument for all students andpractitioners of contract law. It follows the classicstructure for the teaching of contract, going throughformation; contents; vitiating factors; capacity andparties; performance; breach; termination; andremedies• Examines, and offers resolutions to, controversialand problematic points• Offers an improved layout with mini-contentslist at the beginning of each chapter, paragraphnumbering and clearer wording of headings andsub-headings• Takes account of more than 300 new casesincluding The Achilleas (remoteness), ChartbrookLtd v Persimmon Homes Ltd (interpretation),OFT v Abbey National Plc (unfair terms), AttorneyGeneral of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd (impliedterms), Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row Management Ltd(proprietary estoppel), Collier v Wright (promissoryestoppel),• Covers all key legislative developments since thelast edition published including those resultingfrom the Bribery Act 2010 and the bringing intoforce of provisions of the Companies Act 2006• Includes extensive use of case citations throughoutthe work• Contains a detailed index, for fast access to eachchapter’s contentsSweet & Maxwell UKSep 2011 9781847039217 PaperbackLaw and the MediaSecond EditionProfessor Duncan Bloy, Sara Hadwin• Addressing the key legal issues impacting ontoday’s journalist, Law and the Media• Acts as an invaluable text for those studyingmedia studies, journalism, a media module of alaw course, as well as for trainee and practisingjournalistsNEW78+852 3762 3222 www.sweetandmaxwell.com.hk smhk.salesenquiries@thomsonreuters.comPrices are correct at time of going to press, but may be subject to change without prior notification