Bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes are among the earlier types of negotiable instruments which acquired popular usage. In recent years, new instruments possessing the characteristics of negotiable instruments have made their appearance. The value of each of these instruments stems from the mandate or promise embodied in the instrument. Being negotiable securities, they are easy targets for fraud and forgery. This article examines the legal consequences flowing from forgery and material alterations to instruments embodied in the Bills of Exchange Act.

Developments in equity are often attributed to judges who decide leading cases. Other people have claims to be recognised as innovators, such as counsel, law-breakers and scientists. If the two great recent developments in equitable remedies, the Anton Piller order and the Mareva injunction, can be put down to technology, it is not the research scientists or inventors, but the developers of mass production, who have been most significant.

Nine years after it began, the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea adopted the UN Convention On The Law Of The Sea on 30 April 1982. This article, the first in a series of three, traces the evolution of the law of the sea. In the beginning there was chaos. Out of the chaos, an international legal order, based upon a three-mile territorial sea, gradually emerged. In time, this order was increasingly challenged by unilateral claims of coastal states. Faced with the threat of legal chaos, the international community decided, in 1970, to convene the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea in an attempt to build a new international legal order for the sea.

This is the third of three articles dealing with aspects of the 1982 Convention On The Law Of The Sea. This article discusses the evolution of the concept of the Exclusive Economic Zone, its basic principles and legal status. The article also discusses the conservation, management and exploitation of the fishing resources in the EEZ. The negotiating process leading to the adoption of the provisions in the convention relating to the EEZ is also discussed.

This article attempts to describe, critically, the extent of disclosure by the prosecution authorities of evidence - whether intended to be used in summary and High Court criminal trials, or left unused - to the criminal defendant. Disclosure is studied at the pre-trial, preliminary inquiry, and trial stages. It is argues that whatever disclosures are made, by law or practice, are inadequate and unsatisfactory, that increased disclosure would be more consistent with the courts' duty to ensure a fair trial for an accused person, and that an official review of this area is overdue.