Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - MARSDEN AND GAULT: COLLISIONS AT SEA (14th Edition)
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MARSDEN AND GAULT: COLLISIONS AT SEA (14th Edition). General Editors Simon Gault and Steven Hazlewood. Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, London (2016) cxxxi and 919 pp, plus 178 pp Appendices and 52 pp Index. Hardback £409.
There is a view that it is unnecessary to review new editions of established works unless there has been a major change in the book. That view has been appropriate where such books are mainly updated in their new editions. And one might be tempted to think it improbable that much will change that is likely to affect a book on what may seem the relatively straightforward matter of collisions at sea. But life is rarely so simple.
The most obvious change with this edition is the well-deserved addition of Simon Gault’s name as co-author. But even that is not straightforward. For the book has as editors/authors (with such books the distinction is rarely clear): Simon Gault and Steven Hazlewood as general editors; Andrew Tettenborn, Stephen D Girvin, Edward Cole, Thomas Macey-Dare
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