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Two new publications:

First, "Lessons from the Swaps Litigation" edited by Peter Birks and Francis Rose, published by LLP.

Secondly, my own contribution: Gerard McMeel, "The Modern Law of Restitution", published by Blackstone Press (who will be characteristically generous with Inspection Copies for Lecturers).

See www.blackstonepress.com

Briefly on the practical implications of Dimond v Lovell, my understanding is that the UK Director General of Fair Trading is quite favourable towards the help hire industry (as indeed was the House of Lords in the 1994 case of Giles v Thompson). Therefore many of them are now licensed to carry on this kind of business. The problems arise out of an earlier batch of cases where nobody had thought them to be consumer credit agreements, before our car insurers started taking the point. Dimond may adversely affect earlier cases, but these are teething troubles, rather than the end of industry. I could personally never see how restitution could be relevant to these cases.

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Gerard McMeel
Faculty of Law
University of Bristol, UK