Concisely comprehensive, but possibly inadequate for purpos - Rated 
The purpose is to provide a study guide for Univ. of London LL.M. external students. This brief non-annotated outline of ten chapters references cases under the topics of the scope of negligence, strict liability, causation and remoteness,damages, contributory fault and volenti, employer liability, road traffic, medical liability,and insurance and vicarious liabillty. The 16 page booklet itself is wholly nonexplanatory, but lists leading cases organized under the various subtopics. For example, the one page chapter on causation and remoteness organizes the defining cases under the subtopics of "Cause in fact," "But for test," remoteness, egg-shell rule, impecuniosity of plaintiff, novus actus interveniens, diligence and contributory negligence, and third parties. The booklet provides a convenient organization of cases in which, if the student learns the cases, s/he should be well prepared to set for a reasonably comprehensive opportunity to demonstrate his/her graps of the subject matter. Various chapters also list auxillary readings and related torts topics. The booklet is more of a starting point rather than the last word. It serves well as a starting guideline for the student of English torts in general, but may serve less well for its intended purpose otherwise. The basic purpose of COMPENSATION AND THE LAW is to serve as an originating and organizing guide for students who plan to sit for the Univ. of London LL.M. external program exam in Compensation and the Law. Learn the principles behind the cases and one will have a grasp of the law of the English law of torts and the principles by which it has developed. But, no matter how much one knows about a subject, a three hour exam allows for limited expression. This book does not claim to be exhuastively comprehensive, but a grasp of the cases which define the meaning of applicable principles and which implement them in specific factual contexts should enable anyone to perform competitively on a reasonably comprehensive exam. The array of cases, points, principles and topics presented here should allow the student to make application to new factual scenarios and comment authoritataively on the evolving applications and trends. The author stipulates that his course in London is organized into 25 separate seminars. For the book to meet its specific utility rather than be misleading if not deceptive, there needs to be some degree of reasonable synchronicity between what the author intends to test on and the reliability of the directed perparation. Students who master the sylabus, topics, and cases should not be placed in the position of pin a tail on the donkey in the dark by facing an exam in which the ten questions turn out to be limited to one or two philosophical or policy issues -- which may well have been covered in the London lectures -- but which gives only minimal opportunity to student to demonstrate the depth, breadth or extensive of grasp of tort principles, cases and incremental developments. There is no excuse for mastery of a basic sylabus to be peripheral to a "what particular esoteria am I focusing on today" approach to making out a subject exam. The volume probably should be expanded to at least reference whatever it is on which the instructor intends to test to meet it primary goal as Univ. of London exam preparation, but it is otherwise an excellent listing of primary topics and defining cases in English torts. Grasp of the princples and cases which are herein conveniently organized under pertinent topics should give the LL.B. or LL.M. student of English torts at any place or exam level the knowledge, understanding, and illustrations of the defining principles of tort law under a reasonably comprehensive and nonidiosyncratic system of testing. Whether the booklet is of much assistance in meeting whatever it is that may be the concentrated and limited focus of idiosyncratic and non-comprehensive exam which tests primarily for peculiar esoteria not suggested in the booklet or auxilliary readings is more questionable.
Fantastic - Gilbert is a master of his field! - Rated 
When placed in the context of a geography BA Gilberts books provides the reader with a well structured insight into Latin America. In particular one should pay particular attention to Professor Gilberts comments upon self help housing in Latin America.
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