A complete practitioner's manual to the personal property security regimes of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

As a textbook, it contains detailed analysis of the fine and more complex academic aspects of personal property security law. As a handbook, it sets out the mechanics for registering and searching documents under the various provincial statutes. Finally, as a law reporter, it features the full text of all relevant case law together with expertly prepared headnotes.

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Author's Bio

Professor Richard H. McLaren joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario in 1972 and was Associate Dean from 1979-82. His principle teaching research interests are in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracts, Debtor-Creditor Rights, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, and Commercial and Business Law. He is the Editor, Personal Property Security Act Cases (P.P.S.A.C.), Canadian Co-Reporter and special consultant to American Law Institute's project on Transnational Insolvency in the three NAFTA countries. He is one of three Canadian academics who are members of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and is the only one who is a member of the American Academy of Commercial Finance Lawyers. Professor McLaren has practical experience as a commercial lawyer, a labour and commercial arbitrator, and mediator. Appointments include: Higher Board of the Euro-Arab Arbitration System; International Court for Sports Arbitration, for whom he was an on site arbitrator at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan and at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is also the author of Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada, 2nd Edition, and The Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act, published by Carswell.