Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - “ESSENTIAL BUSINESS LAW-LEASES OF BUSINESS PREMISES”
By David Yates Published by Sweet & Maxwell (vii and 86 pp including index) £1.25
This is an easily readable, inexpensive, and fully adequate account of the law dealing with business tenancies for managers and businessmen, to which the whole series is directed. Indeed, the writer finds the exposition of the statutory provisions protecting business tenants quite adequate to serve as an introduction to the subject for second and final year law degree students. However, the claim in the introduction that the work also explains the law governing the purchase and transfer of business property is not borne out by the text, not surprisingly, perhaps, as there is very little law specifically relating to these matters, though pp. 66–73, most of which is not relevant to leases, may be included to substantiate this claim. The author necessarily commences with an introductory chapter in which he attempts to explain the concepts of land law essential to an understanding of the later text, and it was this chapter which the reviewer found least satisfactory. The fault seems to lie in an attempt to cover too much ground, resulting in oversimplifications and inadequate explanations as in the references to
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