All Book reviews articles – Page 52
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BOOK REVIEW Essential Mental health Law: A guide to the revised Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Author: Anthony Maden and Tim Spencer-Lane The mental health lawyer is now spoilt for choice of books on their field. The leading work is Jones’ Manual which is now in its 13th edition. It costs a hefty £69.00 ...
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BOOK REVIEW Where is the Justice?
Author: Hirosama Ezoe On 4 March 2003, Hiromasa Ezoe, Chairman of Japanese conglomerate Recruit, was sentenced to three years imprisonment, suspended for five years, having been found guilty of bribery. His epic trial began in October 1989 and ended ...
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BOOK REVIEW Passion, Poison and Power – The Mysterious Death of Sir Thomas Overbury
Author: Brian Harris QC Sir Thomas Overbury’s death in the Tower of London in 1613 became the focus of one of the most sensational court scandals of James I’s reign. In 1616 the earl and countess of Somerset were ...
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BOOK REVIEW Leadership for Law Firms: after the Legal Services Act
Author: Patricia Wheatley Burt Leadership for Law Firms: after the Legal Services Act is a report ...
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BOOK REVIEW Gangland Soho
Author: James Morton The Gazette’s own James Morton, stalwart of Obiter, is a serial chronicler of London’s inter- and post-War gangland and its retinue of hangers-on, including the often dubious lawyers and journalists who operated on its fringes. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Cases that Changed our Lives
Author: Ian McDougall (general editor) Ian McDougall’s excellent new anthology shows how the common law in many jurisdictions continues to have a profound effect on society, with the decisions of judges in contentious cases vying, not always comfortably, with ...
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BOOK REVIEW Early London County Courts: a Brief Account of Their History and Buildings
Author: Anthony Bradbury For Anthony Bradbury, a district judge in Ilford County Court for a decade, Early London County Courts is a labour of love, based on research, reading and site visits brought together since the 1980s. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Annotated Companies Legislation
Author: edited by John Birds, Robert Hildyard QC, Robert Miles QC, Nigel Boardman and Malcolm Davis White QC Annotated Companies Legislation is one of the few section-by-section commentaries on the Companies Act ...
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BOOK REVIEW APIL Guide to Tripping and Slipping Cases
Author: Charles Foster and Ben Bradley Every caseload of a general personal injury lawyer will have a number of tripping and slipping cases. In a large proportion of these cases the defendant will be obvious, an early admission of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Charities Act 2006
Author: Michael King and Ann Phillips The new Charities Act 2006 signals a radical overhaul of the legislation affecting charities. Its far-reaching changes affect virtually all aspects of charities law.
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BOOK REVIEW The End of Lawyers? (paperback edition)
Author: Richard Susskind In many ways, Richard Susskind has much to be happy about. As he notes in the introduction to the paperback edition of The End of Lawyers?, he can identify key ways in which the global legal ...
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BOOK REVIEW Civil Costs: Law and Practice
Author: Dr Mark Friston One can be forgiven for wondering why you should consider purchasing a book on costs. It is unlikely to provide one with sparkling dinner party conversation, and it is also rather heavy to carry. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Claud Mullins – Rebel, Reformer, Reactionary
Author: Emma Dally ‘A man of contradictions’ – this is how he is described by his granddaughter Emma Dally, author of Claud Mullins – Rebel, Reformer, Reactionary – and she takes the reader through those brilliantly. One of the ...
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BOOK REVIEW APIL Guide to Catastrophic Injury Claims
Author: Grahame Aldous QC, Peter Andrews QC, Stuart McKechnie, Terry Lee This is an excellent guide to both the experienced practitioner and the more junior lawyer developing their expertise in this area of work.
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Gazette book reviews online
The Gazette has today launched an online book reviews page, covering law books, fiction written by lawyers, and books about the profession. Our opening reviews include Court Scenes by court artist Patricia Coleman and court reporter Paul Cheston (see picture); Feminist Judgments by Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley; ...
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BOOK REVIEW Court Scenes: the court art of Priscilla Coleman, with commentary by Paul Cheston
Author: Paul Cheston US-born Patricia Coleman is one of the best court artists, used for more than two decades by ITN and many of the daily papers.
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BOOK REVIEW The Confession
Author: John Grisham We have all known the tear duct stinging injustice of punishment for something we did not do. ‘It’s not fair!’ we would protest as children. But imagine how indescribably worse it would feel to be wrongly ...
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BOOK REVIEW Feminist Judgments: from Theory to Practice
Author: Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn and Erika Rackley Is it possible to be both a judge and a feminist? That’s the intriguing question posed by Baroness Hale in her foreword to a fascinating new book, Feminist Judgments from Theory ...
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BOOK REVIEW Sentence Adjourned
Author: Paul Genney In Sentence Adjourned, Paul Genny’s barrister creation Henry Wallace is again up to his treacly legal best. Firstly, there's the matter of a stolen Lamborghini and a substantial terrorist action, then the defence of his overbearing ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law
Author: Nancy Levit and Douglas Linder There is a bit of something for everyone in Nancy Levit and Douglas Linder’s book The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law. Levit and Douglas are law professors at the ...