Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHIPPING LAW SOURCES (U.K.)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHIPPING LAW SOURCES (U.K.) edited by E. R. H. Ivamy, Ph.D., LL.D., Barrister, Professor of Law, University College London. Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., London (1985, xix and 1104 pp., plus 42 pp. Index). Loose-leaf £95.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARBITRATION LAW by Eric H. K. Lee, B.A., (Hons.), M.A. (Law). Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., London (1985, xxix and 389 pp., plus 7 pp. Index). Loose-leaf £78.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION by Eric H. K. Lee, Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., London (1986, xxi and 389 pp. plus 7 pp. Index). Loose-leaf £130.
Externally similar in appearance, in similar loose-leaf formats and from the same publishers, these three recent encyclopediae are nonetheless different in approach. The shipping and general arbitration volumes show the greater similarity. Both contain the texts of primary source material, plus sections containing summaries of relevant cases. In the former aspect, the shipping encyclopedia is particularly comprehensive and fulfils a long-felt need, prolonged by Parliament’s failure to meet possibly the greatest need for a consolidating statute (at least since recent revisions of the company law legislation), by providing the texts of the merchant shipping and related legislation in its currently amended form and such as to allow
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