Commercial law

Privity of Contract offers a unique perspective of how the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 works in practice.

This volume looks at the operational standards and obligations in civil aviation, and the consequences of failure to comply with them.

Concerned with the area of illegal transactions, this text addresses practical issues, for example: who can raise the issue of illegality?

Bills of lading form an essential part of the carriage of goods by sea and international trade.

Aimed primarily at non-regulatory lawyers this book provides a practical guide to transactions involving utilities and in particular the procurement of goods and services from utilities (rather than by utilities).

Available for the first time in one easy-to-read printed volume, The Commercial Court Guide contains all materials needed when appearing in the Commercial Court or the Admiralty Court.

The book examines the ambiguous relationship between the European law on unfair commercial practices and contract law.

What affects the supply of oil?

This accessible work provides critical analysis and context to international capital markets, their regulation and their institutions.

Providing a comprehensive and detailed treatment of termination as a remedy for breach of contract, this book gives a current account of the law and explains this complex area in a practical context.

European Banking and Financial Law Statutes presents all the key legislation for European banking and financial law in one student-friendly volume.

This book gives comprehensive coverage of EU distribution law and the law relating to vertical agreements.

Insurance Law - An Introduction is essential reading and will provide you with a thorough understanding of all the main areas including motor, property, financial and marine insurance.

This book provides a critical analysis of merger control regimes in the former socialist countries with small market economies, looking at the unique challenges facing these economies.

The fourth edition of International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach gives business and law students a clear understanding of the legal principles that govern international business.

This book deals with the procedure for obtaining a winding-up order chronologically from presentation of a petition through to making the order.

A comprehensive empirical study of China''s corporate reorganization law and its implementation.

Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution provides an analysis of the responses to the recent crisis that has beset the international financial markets taking a top down approach looking at the mechanisms to manage a financial crisis, to the practicalities of dealing with the resolution of a bank experiencing distress.

This book analyses the contractual mechanisms requiring parties to exhaust a selected amicable dispute resolution procedure before proceedings in court or arbitration are initiated.

Uses an interdisciplinary and empirical approach to analyze the process of institutionalizing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for shareholder disputes in Hong Kong.

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of critical topics in fiduciary law and theory through chapters authored by leading scholars.

Probably the core characteristic of a bill of lading is that the original bill of lading must be presented at the port of destination for a consignee to be entitled to delivery of the goods and for the carrier to get a good discharge of its delivery obligation by delivering the goods to said consignee.

This, the only book in print to focus on liquidated damages and penalty clauses, analyses the common law jurisdiction to control stipulated damages clauses, and the distinction between enforceable liquidated damages clauses and unenforceable penalty clauses.

This book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the protection, respect for and fulfilment of human rights.

This collection of essays, written by leading commentators from across the common law world, examines a range of topics concerning Equity and Trusts in the commercial context.

This edited volume identifies the various country specific factors that warrant changes in the design and implementation of competition laws.

Written by experienced and innovative projects lawyer Arent van Wassenaer, this book explains what the critical success factors are for construction projects to be completed on time, within everyone's budget, to the right quality, with all stakeholders satisfied and without disputes.

This book charts the difficulties encountered by vulnerable consumers in their access to justice, through the contributions of prominent authors (academic, practitioners and consultants) in the field of consumer law and access to justice.

An updated guide, and expert analysis on, the legal issues relating to common exemption clauses and unfair terms in legal contracts.

This book explores the transnational legal infrastructure for dispute resolution in transnational securities transactions.

In the past twenty years action in respect of the profits of crime has moved rapidly up the criminal justice agenda.

This book is a user manual for understanding and deployment of open source software licensing in business.

The validity of a contract can be undermined by factors affecting contractual consent.

The Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code) is a mandatory obligation for all systems operating in Australia, and takes a comprehensive approach to disclosure, relationship laws and dispute issues.

Intellectual property has traditionally been regulated on a territorial basis.

There is an urgent need to better understand the legal issues pertaining to alternative dispute resolution (ADR), particularly in relation to mediation clauses.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

Security Litigation: Best Practices for Managing and Preventing Security-Related Lawsuits provides practical guidance and examples on how to deal with the most difficult legal issues that security executives face every day, also exploring the key issues that occur before, during, and after a lawsuit.

This comprehensive book begins with a consideration of the nature of the general banker-customer relationship, the obligations it poses and the issues relating to the commencement of the banking relationship.

Despite the growing importance of 'consumer welfare' in EU competition law debates, there remains a significant disconnect between rhetoric and reality, as consumers and their interests still play only an ancillary role in this area of law.

The growth in prominence of the law of restitution and European Community law has resulted in the creation of a body of case law, which is contained within this work.

The Domain Name System (DNS), which matches computer addresses to human-friendly domain names, has given rise to many legal issues.

This work contains within a single book an account of all the forms of estoppel in operation today, including estoppel by record (res iudicata), as well as of the associated doctrine of election.

America's culture is moving in a new and dangerous direction, as it becomes more accepting and tolerant of dishonesty and financial abuse.

This textbook places the relationship between law and economics in its international context, explaining the fundamentals of this increasingly important area of teaching and research in an accessible and straightforward manner.

This book is a comparative study of international practices in bankruptcy law, providing perspectives from a variety of specialisms including practitioners, lawyers, bankers, accountants and judges from the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Singapore.