All Book reviews articles – Page 60
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BOOK REVIEW Pre-nuptial Agreements
Author: Iain Harris and Rachel Spicer Pre-nuptial agreements have always been the Cinderella of family proceedings but with one important twist – she has yet to go to the ball. They have been nibbling ...
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BOOK REVIEW Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook
Author: Steve Broach, Luke Clements and Janet Read Disabled children and their families face substantial barriers in their lives – they are financially worse off and have poorer standards of living than families who don’t live with disability, experience ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Hangman’s Fracture
Author: David Crigman David Crigman has been a successful criminal silk for many years but has managed to combine that demanding career with his 'part-time' job as a writer of crime fiction and his latest offering - his fourth ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Art of Managing Professional Services: insights from the leaders of the world’s top firms
Author: Maureen Broderick The Art of Managing Professional Services joins a growing body of texts that treat professional services firms, most of them current or former partnerships, as businesses with their own ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Serpent Pool
Author: Martin Edwards The novel, by a partner at national law firm Weightmans, begins with a gruesome murder and ends with a suicide pact, the tension tightening like a bowstring in between. The author ...
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BOOK REVIEW Drafting Employment Contracts (2nd edition)
Author: Gillian Howard Any book about forms and precedents is a valuable addition to any practitioner’s library – and this one is no exception. However, writing a book of forms and precedents in employment ...
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BOOK REVIEW Last Orders – The Essential Guide to Your Letter of Wishes
Author: Patricia C Byron Most Probate Solicitors will have encountered at some point the estate with little or no paperwork, the funeral to be arranged with no knowledge of the deceased’s preferences, or a family at loggerheads over the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Conveyancing Handbook, 12th edition
Author: General editor: Frances Silverman I was both delighted and apprehensive to be asked to review the new edition of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook: delighted because I got my review copy ahead of the press, and apprehensive because ...
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BOOK REVIEW Legal Marketing: What the client hires from the lawyer
Author: Francesc Dominguez and Iolanda Guiu Despite my best efforts to like this guide it failed to impress. Perhaps I’m just not ‘tuned in’ to the authors’ particular style or perhaps it was the opening dedication that turned me ...
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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 ...