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28 May 2020 / Rawdon Crozier
Issue: 7888 / Categories: Features , Property
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Book review: Restrictive Covenants and Freehold Land: A Practitioner’s Guide

"If I ever write a practitioners’ guide to anything, I freely admit I am going to turn to this book and shamelessly plunder its accessible structure"

 

 

Restrictive Covenants and Freehold Land: A Practitioner’s Guide Fifth edition & CD

Author: Andrew Francis
Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN/ISSN: 9781784732417
Price: £139.99

 


Andrew Francis’s preface begins by noting an increasing readership among those ‘who are not lawyers, or other professionals in the world of property law’ and his stated intention is to have made this Fifth Edition of the work more readable. Without suggesting the Fourth Edition was unduly dry, technical, or inaccessible, I can report he has succeeded, so far as I, handicapped by being a property lawyer, am able to judge.

In addition to a new stylistic approach and the usual updating required by a plethora of case law since the last edition in 2013, the new edition offers an enlarged analysis of the procedural stages in applications under s 84(1) of the Law of

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