WHAT LAW NOW FOR THE SEAS? edited by Carlyle E. Maw with John W. Williams. American Bar Association, Washington D.C. (1984, v and 73 pp.). Paperback U.S. $8. These proceedings of a meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco in 1982 include transcripts of papers and discussions on the United States’ position with regard to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

THE REGULATION OF FOREIGN LAWYERS (3rd Edition) by Sydney M. Cone III. American Bar Association, Washington D.C. (1984, iii and 110 pp.). Paperback U.S. $9.95.

CAREER PREPARATION AND OPPORTUNITIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW edited by John W. Williams. American Bar Association, Washington D.C. (1984, x and 130 pp., plus 13 pp. Appendices). Paperback U.S. $8. This and the previous two volumes are available from the American Bar Association, Order Fulfilment (521), 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Handling is U.S. $2 per total order.

CONSUMER LAW STATUTES (5th Edition). Monitor Press, Sudbury, Suffolk (1986, vi and 313 pp.). Paperback £14.95. This is a re-set and larger format edition of this extensive and economical collection of statutes. Including statutes such as the Factors Act 1889, the Misrepresentation Act 1967, the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, its utility is clearly not confined to those with a specifically consumer-orientated interest in commercial law. The new edition contains the Consumer Safety (Amendment) Act 1986.

ALL JANGLE AND RIOT (A Barrister’s History of the Bar) by R. E. Hamilton, Barrister, Recorder of the Crown Court, Chancellor of the Diocese of Liverpool. Professional Books Ltd., Abingdon (1986, v and 275 pp., plus 8 pp. Plates, 32 pp. Appendix and 18 pp. Index.) Hardback £12.95. It is clear from the text and the long appendix (of sources, further reading and notes) that a great deal of energy has been devoted to this work. It begins in ancient Rome and proceeds, through numerous anecdotal accounts of life of and around English lawyers to specific treatment of individuals such as Erskine and Birkenhead, an account of the Nuremberg trials and, finally, a look backwards and forwards. The serious student of legal history will be disappointed, possibly horrified at this rather uneven and highly personal review. Not everyone would agree with Lord Lane C.J.’s suggestion, in the Foreword, that it is a legal classic. But lawyers and laymen of all ages would no doubt be inclined to agree with him that it is eminently readable and pure, undemanding, pleasure.

CIVIL LIABILITY STATUTES (Contract, Tort and Restitution) by F. D. Rose, M.A., B.C.L., Ph.D., Barrister, Senior Lecturer in Laws, University College London. Financial Training, London (1987, x and 147 pp., plus 3 pp. Index). Paperback £8.50. This book contains extracts from the amended texts of over 200 statutes. It incorporates the principal statutes applicable to contract, tort and restitution plus relevant provisions from property law, maritime and commercial law, public law, criminal law, etc. It closes with a selection of statutory instruments and the EEC products liability directive.

THE BANKING ACT 1979 annotated by John W. Vaughan, LL.M., Lecturer in Law, Lancashire Polytechnic. Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., London (1987, xii and 112 pp., plus 3 pp. Index). Paperback £18.50. The major part of this book comprises the amended text of the Act. Some, but by no means all, sections are followed by short general annotations, although the annotations, and the five page Introduction, are not comprehensive and are directed specifically towards the Act rather than to its place in the wider law relating to banking. The remainder of the book reproduces regulations made under the Act in 1980, 1983 and 1985. In view of the impending supersession of the Act by the Banking Act 1987, introduced into Parliament prior to the book’s publication, the book’s useful life was inevitably destined to be brief.