2008-05-25 A very poor approach to a core text on tort

I'm a masters law student having studied at undergraduate level in another discipline, therefore credit myself some knowledge of what makes a good textbook. I, together with many others from my course, have found the book confusing in structure, lightweight on important detail and poorly written to the extent that some case exerpts conflict in detail with the law reports it purports to summarise. It is unclear from sections of the book which are the salient cases & indeed it spends far too long discussing cases which are no longer applicable to certain principles. For a student fresh to the subject I find this unacceptable & have found it necessary to find another core text to replace this to enable a decent level of understanding.

A very poor approach to a core text on tort.