Modern Bills of Lading by Paul Todd, and Cases and Materials on Bills of Lading by Paul Todd

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Modern Bills of Lading by Paul Todd, MA, BCL. Published by BSP Professional Books, UK (1986, x and 210 pp incl Contents, Preface, Appendices, Table of Cases and Statutes, and Index) . Cases and Materials on Bills of Lading by Paul Todd, MA, BCL. Published by BSP Professional Books, UK (1987, xiii and 376 pp incl Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, Tables of Cases and Statutes, Index). Hardback Price £40 (UK) I like Paul Todd's Modern Bills of Lading . Why? Because it is the type of book which, given the time, I would have liked to have written myself. Most of the text books in this field fall into one of two types. They either explain the function of a bill of lading as a contract of carriage or its function as one of the documents in a sale contract. However, there are very few books which explain how the bill of lading interlinks between these two functions. This is strange because this is exactly what a bill of lading does and whenever one has to consider a problem involving a bill of lading it is vital to consider the part which it plays in both fields. For example, a cargo claim involves a consideration both of who has the right to sue …