Anthony Guest Explained

Anthony Gordon Guest, CBE, KC, FBA (born 1930), often published as A. G. Guest, is a British barrister and legal scholar. He was professor of English law at the King's College London from 1966 to 1997, having previously been a fellow of University College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1965.^[1] He specialises in the law of contracts, especially relating to sale of goods, negotiable instruments and consumer credit.^[2]

Guest was made a Queen's Counsel (QC; now King's Counsel, KC) in 1987.^[3] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1989 New Year Honours for services to the UN Commission on International Trade Law,^[4] and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1993.^[5]

Publications

• (editor) Anson's Principles of the Law of Contract (edns 21 to 26, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959–1984)
• (general editor) Chitty on Contracts (edns 23 to 27, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1968–1994)
• (editor) Oxford Essays on Jurisprudence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961)^[6]
• The Law of Hire-Purchase (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1966)^[7]
• (editor) Benjamin's Sale of Goods (edns 1 to 6, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1974–2002)
• (editor, with Michael G. Lloyd and Eva Z. Lomnicka) Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit Law (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1975)^[8]
• (with Eva Z. Lomnicka) Introduction to the Law of Credit and Security (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1978)^[9]
• (editor) Chalmers and Guest on Bills of Exchange (edns 14 to 15, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1991–1998)
• Guest on the Law of Assignment (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2012)
• (with Paul Matthews) The Law of Treasure (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018)

Notes and References

1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-13901 "Donaldson, Prof. (Charles) Ian (Edward)"
2. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/anthony-guest "Professor Anthony Guest"
3. The London Gazette, 1 May 1987 (issue 50906), p. 5769.
4. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/51578/supplement/8 The London Gazette
5. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/anthony-guest-FBA/ "Professor Anthony Guest FBA"
6. For reviews of this book, see F E Dowrick (1963) 26 Modern Law Review 106; Charles Fried (1961) 61 Columbia Law Review 1384; A H Campbell, "Book Reviews" (1961) 12 Philosophical Quarterly 282; Wolfgang Friedmann, "Reviews" (1961) 76 Political Science Quarterly 615; and E S (1963) 28 Il Politico 222.
7. For reviews of this book, see Florence O'Donoghue (1967) 30 Modern Law Review 473; L S Sealy (1967) 25 Cambridge Law Journal 131; and W D Finlay (1966) 1 Irish Jurist (New Series) 376.
8. For a review of this book, see R Lawson (1978) 41 Modern Law Review 500.
9. For reviews of this book, see R M Goode (1979) 42 Modern Law Review 125; and J W A Thornely (1979) 38 Cambridge Law Journal 415.