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Ideal for students taking law modules on construction, surveying, real estate, planning and civil engineering courses,¿Galbraith's Construction and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the built environment.
Clearly written and with wide ranging coverage of key legal principles, this textbook highlights the need for students on built environment related courses to access information on how the law relates to their profession, without getting into the heavy detail of the full-scale legal texts. Chapters provide the background to the English legal system before covering key topics such as contract law, tort, health and safety, land law, planning, landlord and tenant, dispute resolution and employment law.
All chapters in this seventh edition have been updated with new case law along with statutory and regulatory changes. The improvements include:
A new chapter on environmental law
An explanation of the new UK/EU relationship following Brexit
Details of current JCT 2016 and NEC4 construction contracts
Changes to landlords' requirements on letting property
The Consumer Rights Act 2015
The Localism Act 2011
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
List of contents
1. The Nature of Law 2. The United Kingdom and the European Union 3. Dispute Resolution 4. Central and Local Government 5. Business Organizations 6. The Law of Contract 7. Special Contracts 8. Construction Contracts 9. Employment Law 10. The law of Tort 11. Health and Safety 12. Land Law 13. Landlord and Tenant 14. Planning Law 15. Highways 16. Building Regulations 17. Environmental Law
About the author
Carrie de Silva is a Principal Lecturer in Law and Taxation at Harper Adams University, UK and a director and trainer with BlueBox Partners Limited. She has taught on RICS accredited courses, predominantly for rural practice, for two decades and delivers CPD, specialising in civil and criminal liability for financial loss or personal injury, and small business taxation. She is a trustee of the British Federation of Women Graduates Scholarships Trust. She has written case books on Negligent Valuation, and Health and Safety, and a
Short History of Agricultural Education and Research. Current research interests include conditional exemption for capital taxes and early women in the professions.
Jennifer Charlson is qualified as a Chartered Engineer and Solicitor with an MBA. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Architecture and Built Environment School at the University of Wolverhampton. She is a Joint Co-ordinator of the CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) W113 Law and Dispute Resolution Working Commission and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers' international journal:
Management Procurement and Law.
Summary
This textbook highlights the need for students on built environment related courses to access information on how the law relates to their profession.
