THE LAW OF THE SEA. (Official Text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea with Annexes and Index.) Published by Croom Helm Ltd., Beckenham, Kent (1983, xviii and 211 pp., plus 32 pp. Index). Hardback £14.95. The Law of the Sea, co-published by Croom Helm and the United Nations, is simply the official text of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, (or Montego Bay Convention as it is called in O’Connell), exactly as published in paperback by the United Nations, but bound in hard covers. This is not the place to offer a review of the Convention itself as a piece of legal writing: suffice it to say that this text, complete with an excellent index and some helpful introductory comments from leading participants in UNCLOS III, is a necessity for anyone working in the field. The hardness of the covers of this edition will no doubt appeal to librarians.

BUTTERWORTHS COMPANY LAW CASES 1983. Edited by D. D. Prentice, M.A., LL.B., J.D., Barrister, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Published by Butterworth & Co. (Law Publishers) Ltd., London (507 pp.). Bound volume £35. Butterworths Company Law Cases is a new series of specialist law reports, published bi-monthly in loose parts and as a bound volume at the beginning of the following year. The style and presentation of cases is that of the familiar All England Law Reports. There can be little doubt of the need for a series of reports devoted exclusively to company law and related matters, and the first, 1983, volume has filled that need by providing in many cases the first available published report of far from insignificant decisions, some of which at time of writing have still to appear elsewhere. In addition to speed of reporting, Butterworths Company Law Cases have the further attraction of being able to reproduce important judgments in full, a practice which in the last few years has proved not to be possible in the general law reports. Finally, the publishers have undertaken to include significant decisions from other jurisdictions in future volumes, although the 1983 volume is confined to domestic decisions; this service will be strongly welcomed by both practitioners and academics, particularly given the increasing reliance on Commonwealth authorities by the English courts in the company law context. The series will justifiably find its way into all law libraries and the offices of commercial practitioners.