The Gazette 1994

JULY 1994

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will not be read "through" by many lawyers. Why? Principally because it deals with an analysis of fundamental legal developments in six core areas of the law and many lawyers will simply pick and choose sections that interest them most; this is understandable. However, that is not to state that the book is unworthy of being read "through". This is the third Annual Review produced by the Faculty of Laws, University College London and it endeavours to provide an analysis of fundamental legal developments in each of the six core areas, contract, criminal law, European Union law, property law, public law and tort. In the contract section, the EC Directive on Unfair Contract Terms, Directive 93/13 EEC (OJ 1993 L95/29) is considered as a most significant development in the year under review, particularly since the majority of consumer contracts will fall with its ambit. The cases of Surrey County Council v Bredero Homes Ltd. [1993] 3 All ER 705 which has been in the Court of Appeal and Linden Gardens Ltd. v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd. [1993] 3 All ER 417 which has been decided in the House of Lords, raise fundamental issues about the limits of the compensation principle in contract

Current Legal Problems 1994

The author of the European Union law section considers the Sutherland Report and examines some case law of the European Court of Justice focussing on Telemarsicabruzzo (Joined Cases C3290 - 290 (1993)) and Marshall No. 2 Case C-271/91. In the public law section, recent examples of judicial review of ministerial discretion and judicial findings of contempt against a Minister provide a theme in the early part of the section. There is also an analysis of the implications raised by Pepper v Hart [1993] 3 WLR 1032 concerning the judicial use of Hansard which is of interest in this jurisdiction. Current Legal Problems 1994 provides a high quality analysis of fundamental legal developments in each of the six core areas. We have so much in common with our neighbouring island that those readers of the Gazette who have the time and 1 intellectual interest to read the book through should feel both enlightened and stimulated on the completion of the intellectual endeavour. Dr. Eamonn G. Hall •

Vol. 47, Part 1, Annual Review, Edited by Ben Pettet, Oxford University Press, 1994, xxv + 222pp, paperback £17.95 stg. "Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Doctor Johnson if he had read it through. Johnson: 'I have looked into it.' 'What! (said Elphinston) Have you not read it through?' Johnson offended at being thus pressed and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, 'No, Sir; do you read books through!'" Doctor Samuel Johnson, Volume 1, Boswell's Life of Johnson. Few lawyers read books "through". After all, who reads the newspapers "through"? Who reads the Gazette "through"? The conveyancer is interested in conveyancing matters; the company lawyer is interested in matters pertaining to company law; the book reviews, of course, should be skimmed by all - but the writer of this note must confess a bias in that regard!

Current Legal Problems is a book that

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