Land Law

Rod Edmunds and Rupert Seal

Introduction
Module Handbook
 Available on QM+

 Please read Part A (Introductory Information)

carefully

 Refer to it through the year for answers to a range

of questions about the operation of the module:
 Timetable/Syllabus
 Books
 Assessment

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Textbooks (Handbook, Part A.5)
 Recommended Textbooks
 Chris Bevan, Land Law, (2nd ed., Oxford, 2020)
 Martin Dixon, Modern Land Law, (12th ed., Routledge, 2021)
 Martin George & Antonia Layard: Thompson’s Modern Land Law,
(7th ed., Oxford, 2019)

 Text, Cases and Materials

 B Bogusz & R Sexton, Complete Land Law, Text Materials (6 th ed,
Oxford, 2019)
 Roger Smith, Cases and Materials, Land Law, (6 th ed, Sweet &
Maxwell’s Textbook Series, 2015)

 Do you need/want a textbooks and/or Cases and Materials?

 Consider trying before you buy
 Canvas opinion from former students
 Buying second Hand – is it the latest edition?

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Textbooks: Blackstone’s
Property Statutes
 You will also need your own copy of a
collection of Property Statutes:
 Must be Blackstone’s Property Law Statutes
(Thomas (ed))
 Buy your own copy – you are going to use the
same copy for your Equity & Trusts module next
year
 Any edition – as long as it contains the Land
Registration Act 2002
 Second Hand fine - provided its unmarked
(except highlighting/underlining and page tags)

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Formative Assessment
 Module Handbook, Part A, A.6

 Formative Assignment in Semester A:

 Formative – Essay - Feedback

 Submission Date – will be on 10 November
2021
 Question – posted on QM+ at least 10 days
ahead of submission
 Submission normally via QM+

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Summative Assessment
 Two modes of summative assessment:

1. Summative Coursework Essay (25%)

 1,500 words
 Submission in Semester B, January 11th 2022

2. Summative Coursework (75%)

 2,500 words
 Submitted in Semester B, April 28th 2022

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Study Strategies: Lectures and
Tutorials
 Lectures
 Purpose – the start not the finish
 Take Notes – How?
 Read Ahead?
 Develop economical study practices –
 Top Tip: Create a single ‘information bank’
from all study sources – avoid duplication
 Why use lecture recordings?
 Rules and Expectations
 Weekly Tutorials

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Land Law – QM+
 Module announcements – check your QM email
account regularly
 Virtual copy of Module Handbook
 PowerPoint slides
 Lecture recordings (on QM+)
 Assignment submission
 Generic feedback: On your formative
Coursework Assignment
 Past exam papers and Examiners’ Reports
 Additional reading ideas

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Land Law

Any Questions?

What’s Land Law like?

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