The Law Handbook: Your Practical Guide to the Law in NSW 10th Ed

This is the best plain-English guide to the law in New South Wales. With contributions from more than 80 lawyers and other experts, it contains just about everything you need to know about the law – including where to go if you need help or more information. Every chapter contains a comprehensive list of related organisations, publications and websites. This 10th edition of The Law Handbook has been comprehensively revised and brought right up to date, incorporating the recent radical changes to workplace relations and social security laws. It will be an indispensable guide for every household and workplace in New South Wales.

The Law Handbook is a book that puts the law into the context of people’s lives. It provides updated information on an ever-wider range of legal areas. This tenth edition will continue the fine tradition begun over 20 years ago of providing an easy-to-use guide to the law in New South Wales.

- James Spigelman, Chief Justice of NSW

This fully revised tenth edition of The Law Handbook contains chapters on

• Banking and bankruptcy
• Consumer protection
• Drug offences
• Family law
• Dispute resolution
• Neighbours
• Renting and buying a home
• Heritage protection
• Immigration
• Discrimination
• Health rights
• Media law
• Pollution
• Driving and traffic law
• Superannuation
• Tax
• Wills, estates and funerals