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This third edition of the Principles of Banking Law provides an authoritative treatment of both domestic and international banking law. This edition contains expanded coverage of developments in other comparable jurisdictions, internet banking services and money laundering.
Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830–1970 adds a new dimension to the history of Britain's commerce, trade manufacturing and financial services, by showing how they have operated in law over the last one hundred and forty years. In the main law and lawyers were not the driving force; regulation was largely absent; and judges tended to accommodate commercial needs, so that market actors were able to shape the law through their practices. Using legal and historical scholarship, the author draws on archival sources previously unexploited for the study of commercial practice and the law's role in it. This book will stimulate parallel research in other subject areas of law. Modern commercial lawyers will learn a great deal about the current law from the story of its evolution, and economic and business historians will see how the world of commerce and trade operated in a legal context.
Among members of the legal profession and judiciary throughout the world, there is a genuine concern with establishing and maintaining high ethical standards. It is not difficult to understand why this should be so. Nor is it difficult to see the professional standards are not completelydivorced from ordinary morality. Indeed, legal ethics and professional responsibility are more than a set of rules of good conduct; they are also a commitment to honesty, integrity, and service in the practice of law. In order to ensure that the standards established are the right ones, it isnecessary first of all to examine important philosophical and policy issues, such as the need to reconsider the boundar...
Edited by eminent banking law scholar Ross Cranston, this is a collection of essays written in honor of Roy Goode, the Norton Rose Professor of English Law at Oxford and highly esteemed commercial law scholar. The contributors, an international group of distinguished commercial lawyers, address topics including international contracts and sales, credit and security, and commercial arbitration. Making Commercial Law is a truly international collection that will be of great interest to scholars of commercial law worldwide, and to practitioners working in the areas of finance and international banking.
This text presents a practical analysis of the private law of banking transactions. Rooted in contract, the banker-customer relationship is overlaid with a range of rights and obligations having their derivation in tort, delict, notions of equity, good faith and statute. The book looks at some questions that arise within the banker-customer relationship in various European jurisdictions. What are the nature and consequences of the banker-customer relationship? Is there a duty on banks to advise customers and others about particular dealings and what liability arises if any advice given is wrong? What security can a bank take to protect itself as lender?
Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.
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The third edition of this text is designed to bring the reader up to date with developments in consumer law up to 1999. It includes material on utilities and financial services regulation.
Explains the legal implications of internationalisation, standardisation and diversification in modern derivatives markets, demonstrating the key role of national courts.
This volume outlines the major features of the controversies leading up to the Intergovernmental Conference, especially those related to the Court's Paper and the Working Party Report. The outcomes of these debates, as represented by the Nice agreements, are also considered. Major documents and the proceedings of a July 2000 conference at Churchill College are included. Distributed by ISBS. No index. c. Book News Inc.