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7 Bus. L. Rev. 1 (1986)

handle is hein.kluwer/blr0007 and id is 1 raw text is: Business Law Review January 1986 1 Editor Susan Nicholas LLB January 1986 Vol 7 No I Editorial Advisory Board Roy M Goode OBE LLD Crowther Professor of Credit and Commercial Law, and Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London; Solicitor L C B Gower Former Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law, University of Southampton; Special Research Adviser to the Department of Trade; Solicitor Frances Graupner MA(Oxon) Solicitor, Clifford-Turner E R Hardy Ivamy LLB PhD LLD Professor of Law in the University of London; Barrister Ex Officio Ruth Eldon BA Richard Mallows Solicitor, McKenna & Co Hubert Picarda BCL MA Barrister Norman Selwyn JV LLM Dip Econ(Oxon) ACIS Labour Law Consultant Kenneth R Simmonds Professor of International Law in the University of London Keith Walmsley LLB FCIS Solicitor in Commerce and Industry Nicholas Dee BA, BARRISTER, FCA Deloitte, Haskins & Sells Editorial BACI We are please to announce that agreement has been reached with the Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry (BACFI) to publish their newsletter as part of the Business Law Review. The quarterly newsletter, to be known as BACFI Bulletin, will appear as four extra pages at the end of the Review, commencing in February. This will be available to all subscribers as we know that it will be of general interest. Members of the association are to receive favourable subscription rates to the Review which we hope will boost membership of BACFI. We trust that our relationship with BACFI will be a long and happy one. .Registering Interests in Parliament The House of Commons' Register of Members' Interests, dating back to 1975, has always been a woefully unsatisfactory document. It is regarded by many MPs themselves as a ludicrous waste of time, which barely shows even the tip of the vast iceberg of MPs' extra-parliamentary financial interests. There has been mounting concern in recent years about the growth of parliamentary lobbying by public relations firms (on which a significant number of MPs serve as directors). Even according to the selective evidence of the Register itself, a growing number of MPs have been engaged in paid consultancy work. The recent spate of scandals in the City has inevitably aroused public concern about the role of MPs with City connections. Anxiety has surfaced from time to time about the capacity of MPs holding directorships and paid commercial consultancies - even accepting that they abide by the rules requiring relevant interests to be publicly declared in debate - to give wholly unbiased consideration to such matters as the introduction of cable television, the privatisation of major public undertakings or the construction of the Channel tunnel. A report by the Commons Select Committee on Members' Interest last May expressed concern about the growing extent of commercial lobbying but rejected proposals for a register of professional lobyists. But it did recommend registration of the extra-parliamentary interests of, inter alia, MPs' research assistants and Continued on p 7 Business Law Review Contents In Perspective Insolvency Act and Corporate User Pt 2 4 Competition Competition, Copyright and Public Interst 6 Trade Unions Miners' Strike and Trade Union Law 8 China Foreign Economic Law 10 Employment Vicarious liability and Course of Employment 23 Employment Law Up-date 24 Contract Training for Contract Negotiation and Management 26 Commercial Law Retail Price Laws Under Review 28 City Newsletter 2 Infobank 11 Irish Newsletter 29 Book Reviews 31 Books Received 32 © 1986, Graham & Trotman Limited Editorial Office Graham & Trotman Limited Sterling House 66 Wilton Road London SW1V IDE Telephone 01-821 1123 Contributions and letters for publication, which should be typed, are welcomed, and should be sent to the Editor at the above address. Subscription Office Graham & Trotman Limited Sterling House 66 Wilton Road London SW1V IDE Telephone 01-821 1123 ubscription January-December 1986 £110 post inclusive, inland £120 air assisted mail Advertisment Manager Tessa Marshall on 01-821 1123 Copyright' 2007 by Kluwer Law International. All rights reserved. No claim asserted to original government works.

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