All Book reviews articles – Page 39
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BOOK REVIEW: No Bar to Success
An eminently readable account of an East End boy's route to silk.
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BOOK REVIEW: Crash Course: To Hell in a Handcart
Despite some mistakes this is a gripping and promising first novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Black Panther: The trials and abductions of Donald Neilson
Ex-law tutor Gordon Lowe brilliantly portrays the criminal mind.
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BOOK REVIEW: Times Change – Before the Children Act
At times this procedure-heavy novel reads like a law school case study.
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BOOK REVIEW: COLPs Toolkit (2nd edition)
This book is a toolkit complete with draft policies, checklists and procedures, all on a CD.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Flack’s Last Shift
A prolific writer of non-fiction takes a confident stride with this debut novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: Profitability and law firm management (2nd edition)
Managing partners need to read this book, which can be dipped into or read at length.
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OpinionChristmas gift ideas: legal books
David Pickup runs through a selection of legal-themed books that could serve as stocking-fillers.
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BOOK REVIEW: Partner Remuneration in Law Firms
Usefully brings together expert views on a subject which is a continuing preoccupation for law firm leaders around the world.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
There is much to interest a lawyer-reader in Elizabeth Foyster’s account of the lunacy commission convened to decide whether the Third Earl of Portsmouth should be declared insane.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Legal Training Handbook (1st edition)
Training needs to be planned, budgeted for, and appraised – as this book attests.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Mental Illness, Human Rights and the Law
This guide’s real value lies in the author’s examination of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.
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BOOK REVIEW: Law and Licensing: A Concise Guide for Shotgun and Rifle Owners (BASC Handbook)
A comprehensive overview of the law is followed by excellent advice on security.
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BOOK REVIEW: A Clinician’s Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act
The book is written in a direct and uncluttered style and the authors are not afraid to provide opinions on how to approach medico-legal issues.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Breaking Law: The Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights and Winning in Court or Losing Well
At £20 for over 500 pages this book is great value.
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BOOK REVIEW: Family Law Protocol
Heralded as the ‘authoritative set of best practice guidelines’, this book merits that description.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Future of the In-house Lawyer: The General Counsel Revolution
This book succeeds admirably on most levels but suffers from a lack of analysis.
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BOOK REVIEW: Interpreting Evidence: Evaluating Forensic Science in the Courtroom (2nd edition)
Both litigator and advocate may be pleased to turn to this book in an attempt to understand the real significance of expert evidence.