Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - CONTRACT LAW IN AUSTRALIA
CONTRACT LAW IN AUSTRALIA by K. E. Lindgren, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Ph.D., Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, J. W. Carter, B.A., LL.B., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney, and D.J. Harland, B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., Professor of Law, University of Sydney. Butterworths, Sydney (1986, lxxvii and 788 pp., plus 3 pp. Bibliography and 23 pp. Index). Paperback £43.54.
The authors of this book declare that it “has been written primarily as a text for students in universities and colleges of advanced education who are undertaking, for the first time, a substantial study of the law of contract operative in Australia” but equally that “legal practitioners will also find the work useful” (p. xi). Accordingly, the text is presented in a practitioner-type numbered-paragraph format but written in a user-friendly way—a sort of
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