All Book reviews articles – Page 64
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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 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 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 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 ...
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Book review: speaking volumes
The Gazette’s family law specialist Gillian Rivers takes a critical look at new books on family law and children’s cases that offer welcome and informative guidance ...
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Book review: a football journey
Football fan and solicitor William Barr takes a journey to rediscover his love for the game. Recent events in the increasingly bonkers world of football – including Arab billionaires buying out a Thai multi-millionaire for control of Manchester City – highlight how the game, at the ...
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BOOK REVIEW You Can’t Read this Book
Author: Nick Cohen Lawyers do not figure highly in the estimation of newspaper columnist Nick Cohen. His broadside at censorship in a liberal age paints solicitors, barristers and judges as the lackeys of oligarchs and snake-oil sellers and conspirators in liberal silence when the going gets tough.