Commercial law and commercial practice. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Commercial law & commercial practice
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah Worthington.
• Other Names: Worthington, Sarah
• Contents: Half Title page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: General Pressures for Change; 1. Globalisation: Its Historical Context; 2. Commercial Notions and Equitable Potions; Commentary on ''Commercial Notions and Equitable Potions''; 3. Statutory Ingredients in Common Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency Doctrine; 4. Property, Private Government and the Myth of Deregulation; Commentary on ''Property, Private Government and the Myth of Deregulation'': Implicit Regulation and the Development of Regulatory Policy. Part 2: Contract Terms and their Interpretation5. The Intractable Problem of the Interpretation of Legal Texts; 6. The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann''s Re-Statement; 7. The Uses of Ambiguity in Commercial Contracts: On Facilitating Re-Bargaining; Commentary on ''The Uses of Ambiguity in Commerical Contracts: On Facilitating Re-Bargaining''; 8. Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in Interpretation; Part 3: Adapting Commercial Law to Modern Conditions; 9. Documents and Contractual Congruence in International Trade. Commentary on ''Documents and Contractual Congruence in International Trade''10. The Dematerialisation of Money Market Instruments; Commentary on ''The Dematerialisation of Money Market Instruments''; 11. Material Adverse Change Clauses After 9/11; 12. Re-thinking Insurable Interest; Commentary I on ''Re-thinking Insurable Interest''; Commentary II on ''Re-thinking Insurable Interest''; 13. The Challenge of Modern Bankruptcy Policy: The Judicial Response; Part 4: Commercial Terms for Commercial Ends; 14. Damages for Breach of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses. 15. Interpreting Employment Contracts: Judges, Employers and Workers16. Super Priority for Asset Acquisition Financing in Secured Transactions Law: Formalism or Functionalism?; 17. The Floating Charge -- An Elegy; Part 5: Controlling Modern Management; 18. Contractual Modification of the Duties of a Trustee; 19. Relieving Directors'' Breaches of Duty; 20. Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz.; Part 6: Moving Forward: Law and Practice; 21. Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach; Commentary on ''Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach'' 22. The Legal Academy''s Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian PerspectiveCommentary on ''The Legal Academy''s Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective''; 23. Contracts, Contract Law and Reasonable Expectations.
• Publisher Details: Oxford Portland, Or : Hart
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 690 pages)
• Subjects: 346.07; Commercial law -- England; Commercial law; Droit commercial -- Grande-Bretagne; Droit commercial; LAW -- Commercial -- General; LAW -- Business & Financial; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Law; Commercial law; Handelsrecht; Handelspraktijken; England; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847311351; 1847311350; 1280800518; 9781280800511
• Related ISBNs: 1841134384
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.