The work is divided into four main parts: general matters of international procedural law, including a summary treatment of the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968; a detailed commentary on the Brussels Convention; summarized accounts of EC countries’ civil procedural laws; and materials, including inter alia the Brussels Convention and United Kingdom implementing legislation, together with related instruments, and rapporteurs’ reports. By far the most important section is the second, the Brussels Convention commentary.

This reviewer found snippets of the first section interesting and useful, in particular, the discussion of legal aid, security for costs and service of process in the international European context. The main Brussels Convention summary, however, is more problematical. Readers reasonably well-versed in the generalities of the Judgments Convention are unlikely to wish to be detained by this rather low-level presentation, while the less knowledgeable will find more generalist works and the standard short commentaries superior and the summarized data therein easier to gain access to than in this section of the book.