'Review from previous edition The resulting 616-page volume is a triumph of text book writing. It was a job worth doing and Smith has done it exceedingly well. The book is excellently structured and easy to navigate. Its coverage is about as comprehensive as it is possible to wish for.In conclusion, Smith's treatise is a triumph, and one of the most important new works in commercial law for decades. 'Professor Gerard McMeel (2008) 37 CLWR 100'Smith is overly modest in saying that the English law of assignment is "unnecessarily complex" (p140): he resolves a number of complexities, and demonstrates that other complexities are necessary outworkings of the different natures of the various rights concerned. Smith's achievements in these ways can be openly acknowledged, as can the many other good qualities found in his book.'Restitution Law Review - [2008] RLR 257 20/10/2008'To practitioners in this area of law, this book will be an invaluable companion.

'International Company and Commercial Law Review 2008'.a splendid piece of work. The coverage is comprehensive, practical and brisk.if you are a practitioner needing an answer to (almost) any question on assignment, then Smith must be the choice: readable, well-laid-out and limpidly clear.'Professor Andrew Tettenborn [2007] LMCLQ 571'This breadth, coupled with Smith's clear writing, gives the work a unique force.'Restitution Law Review - [2008] RLR 257 20/10/2008'Given the unfathomably diffuse nature of its subject-matter and the lack of any contemporary precedent, it is a tremendous achievement that Smith's book exists at all. Smith has done the legal community a huge service by bringing together much of the relevant primary and secondary material which make up the large, amorphous and growing body of law on assignment and mechanisms having an equivalent effect to transfer in one fairly compact and succinctly written volume.'Chee Ho Tham (2008) 124 LQR 175.