Banking & Finance

Banking and Finance: In Principle comprises a combination of key principles, tutorial-type questions and analysis in the area of Banking and Finance Law to introduce students to the fundamentals of the subject. This new title covers the following areas:

• The Australian banking system
• Contract law and bankers
• Special customers and the banker
• Legal issues and the current account
• Cheques (paying bank/collecting bank)
• Bills of exchange
• Letters of credit
• Negligence
• Capacity
• Security on company borrowings
• Securities: Lending on real property
• Electronic banking and credit cards
• Consumer protection

As a concise and accessible analysis of the law relating to banking and financial institutions, this new work will be an excellent study tool for students of banking law. It includes cross references to Everett and McCracken’s Banking and Financial Institutions Law, 6th Edition and will be a useful companion text.