Commercial Law 2012

• The manual offers comprehensive coverage of commercial law, and its detailed and thorough approach enables students to progress more easily to the practitioner texts they will use in practice.
• Examples are used throughout the manual to emphasize the practical context of the law and procedure, and to demonstrate how commercial law is applied in everyday situations.
• End-of-chapter key point summaries encourage students to review the material and help them to identify easily the most important topics covered.
• Diagrams and specimen documents present the law in a visual way, providing students with an engaging way of understanding the complexities of the subject area.

New to this edition

• New specimen documents have been added to aid students' understanding of the practical elements of commercial law.
• New cases have been added to indicate how legislation affects this area of law.

Readership: LPC students taking the commercial law elective of the Legal Practice Course.

Robert Bradgate, Professor of Commercial Law, University of Sheffield, and Fidelma White, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College Cork, Ireland

Contract law and commercial contracts
1: The role of the commercial lawyer
2: Formation of contracts
3: Performance and breach of contracts
Agency
4: Agents in commerce
5: Agent's power and authority
6: Agent's power and authority
7: The relationship between principal and agent
8: Distributor contracts
The sale and supply of goods and services
9: Commercial supply contracts
10: Duties of the parties
11: Seller's duties and buyer's remedies
12: Terms relating to the goods
13: Manufacturer's and product liability
14: The passing of property and risk
15: Title and priority conflicts
16: Buyer's duties and seller's remedies
17: Contracts for the supply of services
18: Standard terms of trading
International sales
19: International sales transactions
20: Carriage of goods by sea
21: International sales contracts
Payment mechanisms in commercial transactions
22: Bills of exchange
23: Bankers' commercial credits
Commercial credit and security
24: Commercial credit and security
25: Real security
26: Personal security
27: Quasi-security
Competition law
28: Sources of competition law
29: European Community competition law
30: UK competition law
Intellectual property
31: The nature and importance of intellectual property
32: Copyright
33: Patents
34: Confidentiality
35: Trade marks and passing off
Commercial dispute resolution
36: Commercial arbitration
37: Commercial litigation