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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Inheritance acts
Jane Mann’s The Will is a legally accurate representation of a family dispute, according to Katharine Riley.
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BOOK REVIEW: Conflicts of interest
Justice For All and How to Achieve It: citizens, lawyers and the law in the age of human rights.
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BOOK REVIEW: Picks of the year
Solicitor and regular reviewer David Pickup lists his favourite reads of 2017: European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction Anthony Arnull £7.99, OUP Whatever you feel about the EU and Brexit, this straightforward and clear introduction to the subject is written in a very ...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Savage Poodle
The Savage Poodle – Tales from Legal Practice Richard Barr £12.99, Solicitors Journal Richard Barr is a clinical negligence lawyer with more than 45 years’ experience who is now a consultant at Scott-Moncrieff Associates. He has been involved in a number ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Data minefield
EU General Data Protection Regulation (A Guide to the New Law) James Castro-Edwards £59.95, Law Society Publishing For those who think the ‘right to erasure’ is about an entitlement to reminisce with some 1980s synth-pop (which indeed should perhaps be enshrined in law), you need ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Oil and trouble
Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East Michael Quentin Morton £25, Reaktion Books In this highly readable book, Morton takes us from the mid-19th century to the present day, charting the history of oil in the Middle East (a term, as ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas
One eye on the top table.
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BOOK REVIEW: Why professor Susskind is wrong
What’s To Become of the Legal Profession? - Michael H. Trotter
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BOOK REVIEW: Standing in your own two feet
A Straightforward Guide to How to Be a Litigant in Person in the New Legal World – representing yourself in the civil courts, Michael Langford
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BOOK REVIEW: Constitutional Reform in Britain and France: from human rights to Brexit
Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan
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BOOK REVIEW: The judiciary we deserve
Being a Judge in the Modern World Professor Jeremy Cooper £24.99, OUP The world has moved on since a judge asked ‘who are the Beatles?’. Judges were mainly white, upper-class Oxbridge-educated ex-barristers. Like members of the royal family, they were treated with reverence. Unable to ...
