Official Commentaries

Purchase the digital version of the Revised Fifth Edition of the Official Commentary on the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment by Professor Sir Roy Goode, which was published in March 2024.

The Revised Fifth Edition of the Official Commentary provides a substantially revised and expanded analysis of the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol, addressing a range of issues thrown up in practice and incorporating the ninth edition of the regulations for the International Registry. With 75 illustrative examples and 18 appendices, together running to nearly 900 pages, it provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide which is indispensable for all manufacturers, financiers, lessors and their legal advisors involved in transactions relating to aircraft equipment.

Purchase the digital version of the 3rd Edition of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Luxembourg Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock (2024).

Ten years have elapsed since the publication of the second edition of the Official Commentary on the Convention and Luxembourg Protocol covering railway rolling stock. This third edition brings the text fully up to date, examining in detail both these instruments and the Rail Registry regulations, all of which only came into force on 8 March 2024. These introduced an entirely new system, the unique and permanently affixed railway vehicle registration system (URVIS), the use of which is compulsory when registering an interest in an item of railway rolling stock. Moreover, in its treatment of equipment-neutral provisions of the Convention,this third edition also updates the other Official Commentaries. With the entry into force of the Protocol and regulations this new edition is an indispensable guide for all those involved with rail finance and leasing, whether as creditors, debtors, financial intermediaries or scholars and students.

Purchase the digital version of the 1st Edition of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol on Matters specific to Mining, Agricultural and Construction Equipment (2021).

Purchase the digital version of the 1st Edition of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Space Assets (2013)