Information and Notification Duties (Paperback)

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"A FURTHER EXCELLENT TITLE" by Phillip T. - 14 March 2017

A FURTHER EXCELLENT TITLE ARRIVING AT A TIME OF MASSIVE UPHEAVAL IN EUROPE AFTER THE UNITED KINGDOM’S DECISION TO LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers As the editors, Ilse Samoy and Marco B M Loos, point out in this most worthwhile book on “Information and Notification Duties” “technological and economic developments require contracting parties to be informed and advised”. This book does just that at a time of substantial upheaval within the EU. It also means that contracting parties should be informed about the characteristics of the services or the goods they are proposing to order. Of course, they should be well advised about their choices and options so one does not need to look much farther than this work for some answers! There is additional information included which the parties may need concerning the type of remedies that may be used against them so that they can be very well protected from the consequences of a lack of information or notification. The two authors and all the contributors involved in this estimable work have identified and reviewed several aspects of these “information and notification duties” for the reader and a great help they are, too. It’s the result of fruitful collaboration as part of the Ius Commune Research School's Contract Law and Law of Obligations research programme and published by the leading EU law commentators Intersentia. Information and notification duties were the main topic of a contract law workshop conducted during the 19th Ius Commune Conference which was held in Edinburgh in November 2014. Whilst many proponents of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union find such duties a good reason to say “goodbye” to the EU, this title gives practitioners and advisers much useful detail on this aspect of contract law today as we prepare for an unknown future. The book contains the proceedings and deliberations of the contract law workshop, with contributions from the following experts: Sanne Jansen (Leuven), Johanna Waelkens (Leuven), Johan Vannerom (Leuven), Carien de Jager (Groningen), Joasia Luzak (Amsterdam), Gerard de Vries (Amsterdam), and Mark Kawakami and Catalina Goanta (Maastricht), with an introduction by Ilse Samoy (Leuven) and Marco B.M. Loos (Amsterdam). The Intersentia team continues to be at the forefront of supplying us with the detailed and specialist advice for all involved in EU law matters. We remain most grateful to the publishers and all involved in the production of these books because they make our jobs much easier when trying to understand how the systems work. Thank you. The publication date is 2016.