Book reviews – Page 38
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OpinionGuides to Inheritance Act claims
Izzy Jaques and Andrew Kidd review two Inheritance Act claim guides.
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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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OpinionFolklore and black magic
Gazette sub-editor reviews solicitor Abigail Wekes-Lowe’s novel Corvid’s Lament
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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 ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know
Aidan Shipman reviews Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis’sPrivacy: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Best defence
The 4th edition of Anthony Edwards and Roger Ede’s Criminal Defence ’should be a key text for all criminal defence firms.’
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Arms and the mandate
Adrian Lower reviews Katharine Fortin’s The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Conflicts of interest
Justice For All and How to Achieve It: citizens, lawyers and the law in the age of human rights.
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AnalysisBOOK REVIEW: Picks of the year
Solicitor and regular reviewer David Pickup lists his favourite reads of 2017: European Union Law: A Very Short Introduction Anthony Arnull £7.99, OUP Whatever you feel about the EU and Brexit, this straightforward and clear introduction to the subject is written in a very balanced way. There ...
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AnalysisBOOK REVIEW: The Savage Poodle
The Savage Poodle – Tales from Legal Practice Richard Barr £12.99, Solicitors Journal Richard Barr is a clinical negligence lawyer with more than 45 years’ experience who is now a consultant at Scott-Moncrieff & Associates. He has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including ...
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AnalysisBOOK REVIEW: Data minefield
EU General Data Protection Regulation (A Guide to the New Law) James Castro-Edwards £59.95, Law Society Publishing For those who think the ‘right to erasure’ is about an entitlement to reminisce with some 1980s synth-pop (which indeed should perhaps be enshrined in law), you need to read this ...