Preface to the second edition

AuthorM.H. Ogilvie
ProfessionChancellor's Professor and Professor of Law, Carleton University
Pages15-16
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PREFACE TO THE
SECOND EDITION
In preparing the second edition of Bank and Customer Law in Canada,
the dynamic rate of cha nge in banking law over the f‌ive years since the
f‌irst edition was published in 2007 became quickly apparent. Not only
has this period seen numerous amendments to the Bank Act in 2010
and in the f‌ive-year review of 2012, but the Task Force on the Payments
System has reported, the Supreme Court has handed down a number
of important decisions, and the earliest third-party electronic payment
providers have already disappeared from the marketplace while a num-
ber of new providers and electronic payment services have appeared.
In this second edition, I attempt to incorporate all this as well as the
usual accumulation of caselaw and scholarship over this period. I am
conscious of the description of what this book attempts to do, the mar-
ket for which it is written, and the impossibility of capturing entirely
the rapid evolution in electronic payments set out in the Preface to
the First Edition, and I adopt all that I said there here. Hopefully, this
volume will be as useful to both Bar and Bench as the f‌irst edition was.
Regretfully, it is now substantially more than 400 pages in length! As
banking books go, thi s is still a small book in which a principles-ba sed
approach is taken to the subject.
I have incurred several debts in its preparation. First, and foremost,
to Barb Higgins who has provided her customary very high standards
in the word processing of new text: Barb, I am truly grateful for your
assistance and your wonderful sense of humour and patience through-

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