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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451061303321

Titolo

Commercial law and commercial practice / edited by Sarah Worthington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-4725-5951-7

1-280-80051-8

9786610800513

1-84731-135-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (710 p.)

Disciplina

346.07

Soggetti

Commercial law - England

Commercial law

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION -- 1. Aligning Commercial Law and Commercial Practice -- Sarah Worthington -- -- -- PART 1: GENERAL PRESSURES FOR CHANGE -- 2. Globalization: Its Historical Context -- Ross Cranston,QC -- Commentary: Catherine Newman, QC -- 3. Commercial Notions and Equitable Potions -- Sir John Mummery -- Commentary: Philip Wood -- 4. Statutory Ingredients in Common Law Change: Issues in the Development of Agency Doctrine -- Deborah DeMott -- 5. Property, Private Government and the Myth of Deregulation -- Paddy Ireland -- Commentary: Andrew Whittaker -- PART 2: CONTRACT TERMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION -- 6. The Intractable Problem of the Interpretation of Legal Texts -- Lord Johan Steyn -- 7. The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann's Re-Statement -- Ewan McKendrick -- 8. The Uses of Ambiguity in Commercial Contracts: On Facilitating Re-Bargaining -- William T Allen and Galya Levy -- Commentary: Paul Lomas -- 9. Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in Interpretation -- Hugh Collins -- PART 3: ADAPTING COMMERCIAL LAW TO MODERN CONDITIONS -- 10. Documents and Contractual Congruence in International Trade -- Michael Bridge -- Commentary: William Blair, QC -- 11. The Dematerialisation of Money



Market Instruments -- Joanna Benjamin -- Commentary: Guy Morton -- 12. Material Adverse Change Clauses After 9 -- 11 -- Richard Hooley -- 13. Rethinking Insurable Interest -- John Lowry and Philip Rawlings -- Commentary: Sir Jonathan Mance and Adrian Hamilton, QC -- 14. The Challenge of Modern Bankruptcy Policy: The Judicial Response -- David Milman -- PART 4: COMMERCIAL TERMS FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS -- 15. Damages for Breach of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses -- Nik Yeo and Daniel Tan -- 16. Interpreting Employment Contracts: Judges, Employers, Workers -- Simon Deakin -- 17. Superpriority for Asset Acquisition Financing in Secured Transactions Law: Formalism or Functionalism? -- Catherine Walsh -- 18. The Floating Charge - An Elegy -- Riz Mokal -- PART 5: CONTROLLING MODERN MANAGEMENT -- 19. Contractual Modification of the Duties of a Trustee -- Michael Bryan -- 20. Relieving Directors' Breaches of Duty -- Rod Edmunds and John Lowry -- 21. Enron and the Long Shadow of Stat. 13 Eliz. -- Douglas Baird -- Commentary: Kevin Davis -- PART 6: MOVING FORWARD: LAW AND PRACTICE -- 22. Commercial Law and the Limits of the Black Letter Approach -- Anthony Duggan -- Commentary: David Gold -- 23. The Legal Academy's Contribution to the Development of Commercial Law: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective -- Jacob Ziegel -- Commentary: Tony King -- 24. Contracts, Contract Law and Reasonable Expectations -- Robert Bradgate

Sommario/riassunto

This edited collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners from various jurisdictions with essays and commentaries co-ordinated around the theme of alignments and misalignments between commercial law and commercial practice. The purpose of the book is to prompt a more critical and constructive reassessment of current commercial law and its practices, and to instigate a more fruitful dialogue between academics, judges, law reformers and practitioners. The result is a series of provocative and challenging essays addressing an enormous range of problems that are of intimate concern to commercial practice. Some essays focus on broad themes, such as globalization and trust. Others address more specific issues, such as contract interpretation or constraining modern management. Yet another group targets special problems, such as dematerialisation or super-priority, in order to assess the success of commercial law in meeting commercial demands. The depth and breadth of issues addressed is a credit to the authors. Taken as a whole, the volume makes some pointed suggestions for improving the practices and processes, and indeed the future progress, of commercial law