Goods in Transit

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Description
The fourth edition continues the work started by the first in 1999 of integrating the principles to be found within the general body of English law into English carriage of goods and international trade law so as to demonstrate how the general principles affect the specific and vice versa. The aim is to offer not only a practical source book and vade mecum for practitioners but also a work of more general interest to others. Naturally many new cases have fallen to be incorporated since the last edition, though a great deal is often still to be gained from a close consideration of the basic principles so precisely and clearly elaborated in many instances in the older primary source authorities and by nineteenth century English, and especially American, scholars. The coverage of relevant material is, the authors hope, as comprehensive as is feasible within the limitations of space encountered by any one volume work of this type but, in seeking to achieve this end, the authors trust their approach is not to be likened to that of the undiscriminating advocate. The general order of presentation of the material remains the same as in the previous, third, edition, save that the opportunity has been taken in this edition to somewhat re-arrange the order of the material in damages to be found in chapters 13 and 14. Other chapters have been more or less substantially rewritten as required by recent authority or further reflection on the part of the authors. find The  Appendices to this fourth edition incorporate only those international transport conventions which form part of the laws of the United Kingdom. For the texts of other international conventions, purely domestic legislation and typical form contracts as found in the appendices to earlier editions, we refer the reader to the internet where these materials can now be readily found.
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Table of Contents
Part 1 : Agency
Chapter 1 : Agent and Principal
Chapter 2 : Agents and Third Parties
Part 2 : Interest in Goods
Chapter 3 : Ownership, Possession and Risk
Chapter 4 : Bailee and Bailor
Part 3 : Carriage Documents
Chapter 5 : Bills of Lading, Waybills and
                        Consignment Notes
Chapter 6 : Receipts in Bailment
Part 4 : The Causes of Action
Chapter 7 :Contractual Claims
Chapter 8 :Misrepresentation Claims
Chapter 9 :Bailment Claims
Chapter 10 : Tort Claims
Chapter 11 : Restitution, Contribution and Debt
                          Claims
Chapter 12 : Assignment and Other Transfer of 007
                           Rights of Suit and Obligations
Chapter 13 :  Measurement and Assessment of Damages
Chapter 14 : Causation and Remoteness in Damages
Part 5 : Liability Regimes
Chapter 15 : Carriers and Forwarders
Chapter 16 : The International Carriage Conventions
Chapter 17 : Statutory and Contractual Liability Regimes
Chapter 18 : Risk Allocation and Transfer
Part 6 : Miscellaneous
Issues
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Author Details
Paul M. Bugde, Fellow Chartered Institute of Arb, Solicitor of the Senior Courts
Simone Lamont-Black, Assessorin, Doktor der Rechte (Dr Jur), CEDR Accredited Mediator, Senior Lecturer in International Trade Law, University of Edinburgh