1st Edition
Commercial Law in the South Pacific
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
Part A: The Legal Structures of Commerce
1. Partnership
2. The Partnership Agreement and Partnership Interests
3. Trusts
4. Express Trusts
5. Companies
6. Capitalisation of Companies
7. Cooperatives, Credit Unions and Incorporated Societies
Part B: Control And Management of Commercial Entities
8. Relations Between Partners
9. The Trustee
10. Management of Companies
Part C: Commercial Transactions
11. Sale of Goods
12. Bills of Sale, Finance Leases and Hire Purchase
13. Insurance Contracts
Part D: Banking
14. Basic Principles of Banking
15. Banking Regulation and Prudential Supervision
16. Bills of Exchange, Cheques and Promissory Notes
17. Documentary or Commercial Credit
18. Digital Currency
Part E: Termination and Winding Up
19. Bankruptcy
20. Partnership Dissolution and Expulsion
21. Termination and Variation of Trusts
22. Winding Up of Corporate Entities
Part F: Foreign Trade
23. The World Trade Organisation
24. Trips
25. The Melanesian Spearhead Group
26. The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
27. Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement
28. The Cotonou Agreement
29. The South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
30. Electronic Commerce
Index
Biography
Professor Mohammed L. Ahmadu is Vice Chancellor at Rayhaan University, Birnin Kebbi. As Professor of Law with research interests in information technology, commercial, corporate and human rights laws, amongst others, he is widely published locally and internationally, and has engaged in numerous international consultancies. He had also served as Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Justice and Applied Legal Studies and earlier as Assistant to the Head of School at the University of the South Pacific (USP), School of Law in Oceania. During his time at USP, he wrote the first edition to Commercial Law and Practice in the South Pacific with the late Professor Robert A. Hughes. He also held the position of Pro Vice Chancellor, Emalus Campus, USP.
Dr Bridget Fa’amatuainu is a Law academic in the School of Law at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), who completed a PhD under the supervision of a leading torts lawyer and theorist of private law. Bridget is committed to engaging in critical legal, queer and feminist scholarship to elevate the voice and lived experiences of gender diverse communities, seeking to unravel and transform laws. Bridget’s research and supervision interests include law reform with an emphasis on pacific (e.g. Talanoa) and indigenous research methodology and theory in gender and equity legal research, private law and decolonial legal pedagogy.
