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General Editor Professor M G Bridge is the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and a door tenant of 20 Essex Street Chambers. His interests lie across a range of commercial law, specifically international and domestic sales, contract, personal property, insolvency, secured transactions and conflict of laws.

Professor Howard Bennett is the Hind Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham. He lectures regularly on international trade law in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.

Francis Dawson is a Barrister for the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales. He is widely recognised as an expert in banking and finance, corporate and commercial law and has published widely in those areas.

Professor Eva Lomnicka is a practising Barrister at 4 New Square Chambers and a Professor of Law at King's College London.

Professor C J Miller is Emeritus Professor of English Law at the University of Birmingham and a Barrister and door tenant at Henderson Chambers.

Professor Philip Rawlings is a Professor of Law at University College London and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He is also co-deputy director of the Centre for Commercial Law at UCL.

Professor F M B Reynolds QC is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Sir Guenter Treitel QC is a former Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College

MAJOR CHANGES HAVE HAPPENED, DON'T MISS OUT ON THE LATEST INSIGHT:

• Updated chapter on documentary credits and demand guarantees
• Information on the developments of:
  • UCP 600 (2007) (Uniform Rules and Practice on Documentary Credits)
  • URDG 758 (2010) (Uniform Rules on Demand Guarantees)
  • URR 725 (2008) (Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements)
• Detailed account of the effect on sale contracts of the Rotterdam Rules (Convention on the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea)
• Dedicated commentary on the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 which caused a major recasting of consumer protection law
• Discusses the changes to credit agreements for consumers, plus corresponding UK regulations

• House of Lords decisions on damages and interest – The Golden Victory (2007), Sempra Metals Ltd v IRC (2007) and The Achilleas (2008)
• The Supreme Court decision on bank charges – Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc (2009)
• The House of Lords decision on FOB & CIF contracts – Scottish & Newcastle International Ltd v Othon Ghalanos (2008)
• The House of Lords decision on replacing defective goods – J & H Ritchie Ltd v Lloyd Ltd (2007)

Part One: Nature and Formation of the Contract of Sale

Part Two: Property and Risk

Part Three: Performance of the Contract & Delivery

Part Four: Defective Goods

Part Five: Consumer Protection

Part Six: Remedies

Part Seven: Overseas Sales

Part Eight: Conflict of Laws

Appendix: The Sale of Goods Act 1979