Customer Reviews
I'm on the LLB course and... - By: Eating sh*t, 25 Sep 2008 
... 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 booksin 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, & 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, & 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 & another thing. I would like a threesome with Emily Finch & Stefan Fafinski. Just to say thanks.
A good Introduction - By: brap brap, 22 Mar 2008 
This is a good book, but does not cover enough depth. Its a good introduction to each topic area & gives you some good details, however it does sometimes seem to go off-track & does not have a continuous flow. For example you can be reading something & suddenly refers to something else.
However this is a good book & I recommend it to anyone interestedin law or wants it a revision book but if you're wanting more depth or for your studies this is not the right book.
Surprisingly useful - By: Legal nut, 25 Dec 2007 I was surprised by how much I liked this book.. Recommended texts are so often dull & unhelpful, or don't match your syllabus...But this one was great. It was clear, & each part linked nicely with the next. It wasn't concise, but then law books do not tend to be! A good basis for learningin detail about the English Legal System.
Its not just for revision - By: keely, 08 Oct 2007 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 bumphin English Legal Systems textbooks? It has to be the driest subjectin the world & it is written about & 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 & I just thought life is too short for this. So I took the book back to the bookshop & got my refund & bought this little lifesaver instead & had money left over to buy other stuff.
It is cheap, to the point & reasonably interesting. I managed every tutorial on this book & my exam & I did fine. There was never anything that I needed to know that wasn'tin here -in fact, I came up with a couple of pointsin one tutorial that nobody else had from reading the set text. I used it for my coursework too & got a decent mark. There are clues on how to do coursework & examsin here that you don't getin the other books & 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 & a fraction of the boredom of the other books & it tells you everything you need to know.
Couldn't really get on with it. - By: keely, 08 Oct 2007 
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 & 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 & then abandon to sitin 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 & at least give you some money back. I don't think that Legal Systems need to be complicated & detailed. It needs to be clear & what it really needs is to be linked with other subjects. Has anyone every mentioned precedent to youin 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 needin one bitesize & 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.
