All Book reviews articles – Page 42
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AnalysisBOOK 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 balanced way. There ...
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AnalysisBOOK 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 of high-profile cases, including ...
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AnalysisBOOK 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 to read this ...
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AnalysisBOOK 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 Morton puts it, ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas
One eye on the top table.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Why professor Susskind is wrong
What’s To Become of the Legal Profession? - Michael H. Trotter
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OpinionBOOK 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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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Constitutional Reform in Britain and France: from human rights to Brexit
Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Beyond the basics
While this is an academic textbook rather than a practitioners’ guide, its depth of useful information should not be underestimated.
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OpinionBOOK 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 defend themselves, they ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Mosaic of clues on crime
Wrongs and crimes Victor Tadros £70, OUP ‘No readable book could consider all… issues relevant to the scope of criminal law. This unreadable book does not do so either.’ I immediately warmed to Victor Tadros as I read his self-deprecating introduction, but the laughs swiftly come ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Driving success in your law firm
Driving Success in Your Law Firm: revolutionising the client journey Eddie Ross and Sally Holdway £69.95, Law Society There must be an easy way for solicitors firms to be successful. But what is success anyway? Is it doing the work you want to do because it ...