This book will seek to highlight and to give practical advice on the day to day requirements of the new regime, and to promote sensible and cost-effective management of the risks. Registered Land , due to be published around the time of implementation of the Act, will provide an authoritative account of the law and practice relating to the new regime for land registration, and will include examples of how the law will operate in practice. This work is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002, and in particular of the way land registration is influenced by, and in turn influences, the evolution of land law as a whole.

The Land Registration Act 2002

The book examines the legal problems that have arisen in connection with land registration and considers the effect of the 2002 statute. It draws extensively upon the law in other jurisdictions and considers possibilities for future development. This book contains a systematic account of land registration explaining the changes made by the Act and their practical consequences. An analysis of the difficulties which may arise is provided to ensure that practitioners are aware of potential hazards. This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities. The book places the subject in the context of international law and trade relations, it also provides country-by-country practice of all nations offering this service.

• The book places the subject in the context of international law and trade relations, it also provides country-by-country practice of all nations offering this service.
• Choice of flag is fundamental to a ship’s commercial performance, and awareness of the numerous factors that determine the most commercially viable option is important for every business involved in shipping.
• This work is intended as a companion to legal practitioners, maritime administrations, shipowners and managers, insurers and brokers, arbitrators and classification societies, maritime organizations and schools, economists and researchers.
• It should therefore be a useful source for academics as well as a useful guide for practitioners.
• Prescott, assembles the leading researchers in the field to provide an in-depth look at what have come to be known as ‘Megan’s Laws’, offering a social science-based analysis of one of the most important, and controversial, criminal justice system initiatives undertaken in modern times.
• Part of the prestigious Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library, this important new edition provides an authoritative guide to the theory and practice of Ship Registration.

Ship Registration: Law and Practice 2nd ed

The book’s alphabetical (A to Z) approach allows practitioners to zoom in on the specific topic they are dealing with, knowing that the book will provide useful background commentary, along with clear guidance on the form and content of relevant Land Registry applications, which are specific to that topic. Choice of flag is fundamental to a ship’s commercial performance, and awareness of the numerous factors that determine the most commercially viable option is important for every business involved in shipping. Part of the prestigious Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library, this important new edition provides an authoritative guide to the theory and practice of Ship Registration. This work is intended as a companion to legal practitioners, maritime administrations, shipowners and managers, insurers and brokers, arbitrators and classification societies, maritime organizations and schools, economists and researchers.

Book of the Month

The topics are geared to aspects of day–to-day practice rather than areas of law as such – making it easy to use and more relevant to busy practitioners, enabling you to come up with the answer(s) you need, rather than trying to ‘fit’ your practical problem into one or more broad sections of a book. This book deals with what is, and will long remain, the most important phenomenon in the evolution and development of international ship registration, organization and management. Trade mark abuse, including counterfeiting branded products and the wrongful registration of a trade mark belonging to a person or a company by another party (a ‘bad faith’ registration), is a well known problem in intellectual property law.

Practitioner’s Guide to the Land Registration Act 2002: The Unfinished Revolution

This interdisciplinary book will appeal primarily to a sociolegal, critical legal, and legal geography readership; but it will also be of interest to those in other disciplines concerned with materiality, movement, and statecraft. Key provisions of the Land Registration Act 2002 provide the legal framework for electronic conveyancing. This book will explain the legislative framework and the current proposals including the key issues of security and authorisation and will highlight the points that need to be addressed by practitioners in order to qualify for access to the new system. Electronic conveyancing will not be with us until 2006 and this book will take a thematic approach, highlighting the main practical issues arising from the new law and providing precedents and checklists to help busy conveyancers to manage the risks.

• The topics are geared to aspects of day–to-day practice rather than areas of law as such – making it easy to use and more relevant to busy practitioners, enabling you to come up with the answer(s) you need, rather than trying to ‘fit’ your practical problem into one or more broad sections of a book.
• It examines the case law, literature and recent EU developments (including issues relating to the enlargement of the EU) on trade mark registrations in bad faith from both an international and national perspective, and offers a comparative analysis of the relevent rules and regulation in 15 EU Member-States.
• This book will explain the legislative framework and the current proposals including the key issues of security and authorisation and will highlight the points that need to be addressed by practitioners in order to qualify for access to the new system.
• This interdisciplinary book will appeal primarily to a sociolegal, critical legal, and legal geography readership; but it will also be of interest to those in other disciplines concerned with materiality, movement, and statecraft.
• Electronic conveyancing will not be with us until 2006 and this book will take a thematic approach, highlighting the main practical issues arising from the new law and providing precedents and checklists to help busy conveyancers to manage the risks.

Each topic contains accurate commentary to aid understanding and clear guidance on the relevant applications which may need to be made to complete a transaction or protect a client’s interests. This makes the book an invaluable ‘one-stop’ source of guidance for busy practitioners, from partners through to paralegals, and for students through to academics. With the ever-increasing importance to both manufacturers and consumers of brand advertising and brand awareness, the commercial significance of trade marks continues to grow.

Registered Land: Law and Practice under the Land Registration Act 2002

It should therefore be a useful source for academics as well as a useful guide for practitioners. It examines the wildzy registration case law, literature and recent EU developments (including issues relating to the enlargement of the EU) on trade mark registrations in bad faith from both an international and national perspective, and offers a comparative analysis of the relevent rules and regulation in 15 EU Member-States. Prescott, assembles the leading researchers in the field to provide an in-depth look at what have come to be known as ‘Megan’s Laws’, offering a social science-based analysis of one of the most important, and controversial, criminal justice system initiatives undertaken in modern times.