Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK NOTICE - INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS: SOME LEGAL PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS: SOME LEGAL PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS edited by C. M. Schmitthoff and R. M. Goode. Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, London (1988, xxvii and 89 pp., plus 39 pp. Appendices and 5 pp. Index). Hardback £20. This book is the first volume in a new series, The International Commercial Law Series. It includes essays drawn from four conference papers. Professor Jan Ramberg writes on the multimodal transport document and Professor Kurt Gronfors on the paperless transfer of transport information and legal functions. Anthony Diamond, Q.C., deals with the liability of the carrier in multimodal transport and Dr Malcolm Clarke considers the question of proof that damage to goods occurred during carriage in the case of containers. The Geneva Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods (1980) and the UNCID Uniform Rules of Conduct for Interchange of Trade Data by Teletransmission (1988) are included in Appendices.