All Book reviews articles – Page 58
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BOOK REVIEW Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave
Author: edited by Paul Goulding QC When you find yourself actually reading, rather than skimming, a 600 page textbook covering an area of specialised practice to write a review, you are either in urgent need of a lifestyle counsellor, ...
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BOOK REVIEW Surrey Executions: A Complete List of those Hanged in the County during the Nineteenth Century
Author: Martin Baggoley In Surrey Executions, retired probation officer Martin Baggoley presents well edited information on all the criminals hanged in the county in chronological order. As well as shining a light in to ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Family Lawyer and the Court of Protection
Author: District Judge Marc Marin The busy family law practitioner is likely to need this book if he or she deals with such cases where separating parents have a child with brain damage or learning difficulties, or one of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society
Author: Reza Banakar (editor) One mention of the term ‘human rights’ and the public think of convicted prisoners winning the right to vote, criminals who are a risk to this country not being deported, and sex offenders being able ...
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BOOK REVIEW Legal Eagles
Author: Simon Tupman I apologise for beginning this review by stating the obvious, but lawyers are unpopular. Only recently the Master of the Rolls dwelt on the endurance of the negative stereotype while quoting a Gazette blog on the ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Elderly Client Handbook
Author: Caroline Bielanska and Martin Terrell (editors) The Elderly Client Handbook, now in its 4th edition, is written and updated by members of Solicitors for the Elderly and covers a wide range ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Proceeds of Crime
Author: Trevor Millington OBE and Mark Sutherland Williams The Proceeds of Crime is an authoritative and accessible book, now rightly into its third edition. Previous editions have been essential companions for proceeds ...
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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 The Naked Lawyer: RIP to XXX
Author: Chrissie Lightfoot This eBook takes risks - risks in its use of language; chatty style and ideas; the heavy use of the authors’ own life examples; the significant talk around soft skills and for that matter in the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Buying Professional Services: how to get value for money from consultants and other professional services providers
Author: Fiona Czerniawska and Peter Smith Buying Professional Services educates and provides a framework for organisations in employing and controlling consultants (including legal firms).
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...