LawExpress: Contract Law (8th edn) by Finch & Fafinski

 LawExpress: Contract Law (8th edn) by Emily Finch & Stefan Fafinski is a really helpful law revision guide for students currently reading law at University, and it is compatible with a qualifying law degree (LLB). It provides a great overview of all the main elements of contract law including offer and acceptance, contractual terms, Misrepresentation, duress and undue influence and remedies as well as much more. This book makes a great introductory read before one covers the relevant content in lectures and a great starting point for revision for law examinations.

I really liked how this book was written clearly, on the whole, and is very student-friendly even to those who are not entirely academic yet; by that, I mean you do not need to decipher complicated academic language too much. The case summaries are really useful as are the advice boxes for exams. The revision guide also contains and signposts to both problem and essay questions for each area, which students can utilise as unseen assessment materials. I further love the case summaries at the end of each chapter and the suggested further reading boxes at the end of each chapter. The topic maps further add value to this revision guide as they do for all the LawExpress revision guides.

There is not much I can say that I really dislike about this book. This book is not good as the sole, primary method of revision because it lacks detail, is not specific to each University's contract law module and only looks at some of the key main cases rather than a whole selection of different cases for one small area which may be useful in assessments, especially for students aiming for a first-class or 2:1 grade.

Altogether, I rate this book 3 stars as it is a good revision book that simplifies the law and helps law students make sense of the law of contract in easy-to-understand and digestible ways. The guide has been adapted for many different learning styles through the use of writing, diagrams and practice questions which helps the guide to be useful to as many students as possible, I would recommend this book to law students at university, but it may also be helpful to A-Level law students.