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08 August 2013 / Malcolm Dowden
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Butterworths Residential Landlord and Tenant Handbook

"It offers a reliable way in to a complex patchwork of rules & regulations"

Editor: James Driscoll

 

Publisher: LexisNexis

ISBN: 978140575578

Price: £81

The Butterworths Handbook series is a remarkable survival in the digital age. Divided into sections with tabs for Statutes, Statutory Instruments and “other material”, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Handbook sets out in immediately accessible form the essential content required by practitioners dealing with that increasingly specialised area of law.

 

Printed handbooks retain significant advantages over online libraries. Unlike its digital challenger, the older technology does not run out of battery power, does not depend on the availability of a signal and can be adapted to an individual practitioner’s needs by adding post-it notes or marginal annotations. It is genuinely portable, and (in the absence of intervention by a toddler or wayward pet) the pages will not disappear or produce unexpected and frustrating messages.

Advantageous format

The format also has major advantages over online resources for practitioners struggling to get to grips with a complex and rapidly

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