Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER LAW AND POLICY—BOLD SPIRITS AND TIMOROUS SOULS
By Sir Gordon Borrie, LL.M., Bencher of the Middle Temple, Director General of Fair Trading.
Published by Stevens & Sons, London. (1984, xii and 129 pp., plus 8 pp. Tables and Index.) Hardback £12.50; Paperback £5.85.
This fascinating small book is the written record of the 1984 Hamlyn Lectures (36th series), given by Sir Gordon Borrie, who was appointed Second Director General of the Office of Fair Trading in 1976, having previously been Professor of English Law at Birmingham University. To this reviewer, the first thing which the book does is to
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