INSURANCE INTERMEDIARIES AND THE LAW by R. W. Hodgin, LL.M., Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham. Lloyd’s of London Press, London (1987, xiii and 127 pp., plus 2 pp. Appendix and 4 pp. Index). Paperback £24. Though in principle not themselves parties to the eventual contract which is the essential object of persons involved in insurance business, insurance intermediaries of one sort or another are usually the people most actively engaged in that business. They constitute the pivot of the industry. Albeit largely governed by rules of the common law, most obviously of agency, they are increasingly subject to regulatory codes, whether of a compulsory or voluntary nature. These influences need to be considered within the particular context of the world in which they operate. The aim of the present author is not to examine in depth all the actual and potential difficulties threatened by the growing and increasingly sophisticated law in this area but to