Commercial law and commercial practice

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Edition Details

Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2003
Type: Book
Other titles: Commercial law & commercial practice
Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/commercial-law-and-commercial-practice/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

XIX, 690 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Commercial law and commercial practice is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: edited by Sarah Worthington.
Publication Date: 2003
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 12 editions
First edition Date: 2003
Last edition Date: 2003
Languages: British English
Library of Congress Code: KD1629
Dewey Code: 346.07
ISBN: 1841134384 9781841134383
OCLC: 54409150

Main Contents

Introduction: Aligning Commercial Law and Commercial Practice / Sarah Worthington
1. Globalisation: Its Historical Context / Ross Cranston
Commentary / Catherine Newman
2. Commercial Notions and Equitable Potions / John Mummery
Commentary / Philip Wood
3. Statutory Ingredients in Common Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency Doctrine / Deborah A. DeMott
4. Property, Private Government and the Myth of Deregulation / Paddy Ireland
Commentary / Andrew Whittaker
5. The Intractable Problem of the Interpretation of Legal Texts / Johan Steyn
6. The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann’s Re-Statement / Ewan McKendrick
7. The Uses of Ambiguity in Commercial Contracts: On Facilitating Re-Bargaining / William T. Allen and Galya Levy
Commentary / Paul Lomas
8. Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in Interpretation / Hugh Collins
9. Documents and Contractual Congruence in International Trade / Michael Bridge
Commentary / William Blair
10. The Dematerialisation of Money Market Instruments / Joanna Benjamin
Commentary / Guy Morton
11. Material Adverse Change Clauses After 9/11 / Richard Hooley
12. Re-thinking Insurable Interest / John Lowry and Philip Rawlings
Commentary / Jonathan Mance and Adrian Hamilton
13. The Challenge of Modern Bankruptcy Policy: The Judicial Response / David Milman
14. Damages for Breach of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses / Nik Yeo and Daniel Tan
15. Interpreting Employment Contracts: Judges, Employers and Workers / Simon Deakin
16. Super Priority for Asset Acquisition Financing in Secured Transactions Law: Formalism or Functionalism? / Catherine Walsh
17. The Floating Charge
An Elegy / Riz Mokal
18. Contractual Modification of the Duties of a Trustee / Michael Bryan
19. Relieving Directors’ Breaches of Duty / Rod Edmunds and John Lowry
20. Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz / Douglas G. Baird
Commentary / Kevin E. Davis
21. Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach / Anthony J. Duggan
Commentary / David Gold
22. The Legal Academy’s Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective / Jacob Ziegel
Commentary / Tony King
23. Contracts, Contract Law and Reasonable Expectations / Robert Bradgate.

Summary Note

This book contains essays by legal experts which aim to prompt a critical and constructive reassessment of current commercial law and its practices.

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