Law of Negotiable Instruments, 6th Edition

Law of Negotiable Instruments is the only detailed and comprehensive work dealing with the subject of negotiable instruments in Singapore andMalaysia. It is a well-established work of reference, and in this fifth edition it continues tomake this complex area of law easily understandable to practitioners and bankers.

Key developments contained in this edition

• Comprehensive and detailed update to previous edition
• Takes into account revisions to the Bills of Exchange Act (Cap 23), including provisions for the truncation of cheques
• Significant case law development in Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdomconsidered
• Only book of its kind dealing with negotiable instruments in Singapore
• Inclusion ofmany decisions which were not considered in earlier editions of the book

Book Review:

The Law of Negotiable Instruments, being a complicated area of law, has generated a lot of case law in Singapore and Malaysia. Yet, until the early 1980s, when the first edition of the Law of Negotiable Instruments appeared, there was no easy way, short of trawling through each volume of the Malayan Law Journal, to uncover these cases. And upon finding these cases, there was no commentary to help analyze the principles to be gleaned from them.

With Dr Poh’s book, one is confident that every reported case from Singapore and Malaysia is dealt with. However, Dr Poh does not stop at just the local cases. As the Singapore Bills of Exchange Act (Cap 23) and the Malaysian Bills of Exchange Act 1949 are substantially in pari material with the English Legislation, English cases are given equal prominence in the book.

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