All Book reviews articles – Page 43
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Brilliant resource on global rights
A review of Rhona Smith’s International Human Rights Law (8th edition).
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Lloyd George: Statesman or Scoundrel
Lloyd George: Statesman or Scoundrel Richard Wilkinson £25, I.B. Tauris Only one solicitor has ever become prime minister of the UK. You can find his portrait in the lobby of the Law Society’s HQ in Chancery Lane – so long as you take a sharp left at ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Life on the inside
Subtitled ‘the key to avoiding the risk’, this book is an excellent introduction to a complicated subject.
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OpinionWhen toy story goes to court
David Pickup reviews You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side.
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OpinionInsider’s track on criminal justice
Adrian Lower reviews The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken.
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OpinionSignpost to Strasbourg
Malcolm Hawkes reviews Jacobs, White and Ovey: The European Court of Human Rights, 7th edition.
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OpinionFascinating true-crime tale
Book review: Blood on the Page: A Murder, a Secret Trial, a Search for the Truth
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OpinionGuides to Inheritance Act claims
Izzy Jaques and Andrew Kidd review two Inheritance Act claim guides.
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OpinionPanama Papers: the fallout
Criminal Finances Act 2017: A Guide To The New Law Hugo Daniel Lodge £59.95, Law Society Publishing This concise guide to the Criminal Finances Act 2017 will be a valuable asset to those advising people who fall under suspicion of committing the newly created offences of failing to ...
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OpinionFolklore and black magic
Gazette sub-editor reviews solicitor Abigail Wekes-Lowe’s novel Corvid’s Lament
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OpinionGuide to ill-gotten gains
Adrian Lower reviews the fifth edition of Millington and Sutherland Williams on The Proceeds of Crime.
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OpinionBuilding blocks of learning
Joshua Pugsley reviews Russell Hewitson’s Residential Conveyancing Practice: a guide for support staff and paralegals, published by Law Society Publishing.
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OpinionClean-living manifesto
David Pickup reviews Environmental Law: a very short introduction by Elizabeth Fisher.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Family lifeline
It has been a while since family lawyers had this kind of publication to hand. The one I remember was published so long ago that CD-ROMs, like the one accompanying this book, had probably not even been invented.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Teaching the fundamentals
Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory (fifth edition) Raymond Wacks £31.99, OUP Sadly, this book was published several years after my university days. It would have been of immense use, bringing together the disparate strands of a highly complex field of study: the nature of law and ...