Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice

Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths

General Editor: Professor Sir Roy Goode QC

Price: £931.95

Edition: Looseleaf & CD-ROM

ISBN: 978-0-406-92113-0

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Whilst consumer credit law is a fascinating and engaging area of law for many (me included), it petrifies others because it seems incomprehensible and incoherent.  For the former, Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice is seen as the bible of consumer credit law.  For the latter lawyers, many will quickly agree after reading it.

Written by a team of experienced consumer credit lawyers, Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice is separated into eight looseleaf volumes: five covering the main part of the text (including precedents) whilst the final three include copies of the key case-law.  The substantive volumes are again sub-divided into narrative text, the Consumer Credit Act 1974, regulations made under the 1974 Act, general notices and determinations, other statutes, other statutory instruments, rates and rebates, codes and guidance notes, VAT materials, EC materials, non-contentious forms, contentious forms, official forms and directory.

Goode: Credit Law and Practice is the thoroughbred of consumer credit texts: providing an engaging, thought provoking and insightful text.  What initially began as a single bound volume written by Professor Goode QC has grown beyond all recognition.  Goode's principles, however, remain at the core of the text: comprehensive coverage in a clear and user-friendly format.  It achieves these aims (and more) with considerable ease.  Impressively, Goode: Credit Law and Practice is superbly cross-referenced meaning that related points and issues are quickly found or always brought to the reader's attention: this is another key feature.

Those readers wanting a searchable version of Goode: Credit Law and Practice will not be disappointed by the CD-ROM version.  Published using LexisNexis Butterworth's "books on screen" software, the whole eight volumes can be quickly searched.  Similarly, cross-references can be quickly viewed by clicking on the appropriate link.  Even the superb precedents, which have recently been updated by the team of editors, are viewable and can be quickly exported to word processing software allowing lawyers to tailor them to their own requirements.

For anyone practising in this area of law, Goode: Credit Law and Practice is a text that you cannot do without.  It explains even the most complex principles in a clear and engaging way.  Impressively, the editors ensure the reader's attention is not lost by breaking the material into small and manageable sections.  Goode: Credit Law and Practice deservedly retains its position as the leading consumer law text and will continue to do so, I am sure, for many years to come.

Reviewed on 7 September 2008

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