Author Description

About the Author Sean Wilken is a barrister at the well-known administrative and commercial law set of chambers at 39 Essex Street. He specializes in litigation involving commercial and public law. Product Description Commercial law and practice are riddled with examples of the parties formally and informally altering the bargains into which they have entered. The means by which alteration occurs are contained within the doctrines of waiver, variation, and estoppel. This book provides definitions ofthese notoriously difficult doctrines, together with a detailed analysis of how they apply throughout the commercial law in doctrine and practice. In the second edition the author has revised and rewritten much of the text to take into account recent cases, and new material has been added onissue estoppel, commercial property, and the possibility of an over-arching unifying theory governing the doctrines. Review `Review from previous edition Virtually every decision in England on waiver and estoppel (together with a good deal of the case-law in other jurisdictions) has been trawled, analysed and dissected. The result, as might be expected, is encyclopaedic.' Andrew Tettenborn, The Cambridge Law Journal`The undoubted strength of this book is its fusion of a thorough (and expert) treatment of the subject matter, with commentary on the themes which underpin these developing areas.' Alastair Hudson, Restitution Law Review