The title chosen for this book may suggest that it is a work written for an antipodean audience and not likely to be of any great interest to readers outside those two countries. Nothing could be further from the truth. Particular reference is, indeed, made to the law and commercial practice in Australia and New Zealand and the author’s comments largely have their focus there; but this is an undertaking which can be described without exaggeration as global both in its conception and its scope. For the English reader, in particular, there is as full and interesting an account of developments in corporate governance in his own jurisdiction as is likely to be found in any other book on the topic; and there is also extensive reference to American and Canadian materials and practice and to the position in the countries of continental Europe, Japan and China.