Book reviews – Page 48
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BOOK REVIEW Local Lawyers: Public Practice
To understand where we are and where we are going, we need to know where we have come from. That at least is one purpose of history. And local government lawyers are now fortunate to have their very own historical memoire.
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BOOK REVIEW Tales from the Courtroom
Author: Brian Harris The title of this book is rather limp, which is unfortunate. To me it suggested a lightweight collection of diverting courtroom vignettes – a patchwork of anecdotes, tragic and funny. That is a well-worn furrow.
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BOOK REVIEW Mental Health Tribunals: Law, Policy and Practice
Author: Philip Fennell, Penny Letts and Jonathan Wilson It demonstrates the beleaguered nature of mental health legal practice under public funding that 14 years have lapsed since the last book for practitioners in this critical field. So critical, ...
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BOOK REVIEW Business Services, Partnering and Outsourcing Contracts: A Practical Guide (4th edition)
Author: Amanda Lewis It remains a tricky time for businesses in the UK: although global economic activity is picking up, the continuing crisis in the euro area is delaying a meaningful recovery (OECD, 28/03/2013). Being successful in business ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Man Under The Clapham Omnibus (the search for patient safety and justice)
Author: Arnold Simanowitz OBE As a champion of the vulnerable, Arnold Simanowitz has impeccable credentials. Born in South Africa just before the second world war, he is descended from Polish émigrés who fled to that country from the pogroms. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Eugenia: A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage
Author: Mark Tedeschi I guarantee that this will be one of the most extraordinary books you ever read. It is a partly fictionalised account of the death of a woman in Australia in the early part of last century. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Professional Conduct Casebook
Author: Kenneth Hamer Every now and again a book comes along which causes busy practitioners to offer up a silent prayer of thanks. Kenneth Hamer’s Professional Conduct Casebook falls into precisely that category. There are precious few books which ...
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BOOK REVIEW Assignment of Death
Author: Christine Conwell and Malcolm Rodgers As a James Bond fan, I was immediately drawn to reading this book by the cover illustration and title, and I was not disappointed. Set at a time ...
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BOOK REVIEW Cases, Causes & Controversies: Fifty Tales from the Law
Author: James Wilson I wonder if the era of the great advocate has disappeared. Not many barristers, and even fewer solicitors, are famous now. In the past we had Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Sir Patrick Hastings and Lord Birkett, ...
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW The Winslow Boy (play)
Author: Terence Rattigan Should you pay a huge price for a principle? How do you fight back if a public body mistreats you?
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BOOK REVIEW eCommerce MasterPlan
Author: Chloë Thomas Much has been written about the challenge posed to traditional small and medium-sized law firms by the sophistication of major ‘brands’ who are focused on capturing clients. It is easy to forget another side of this ...
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BOOK REVIEW Islamic Wills, Trusts and Estates: Planning for this World and the Next
Author: Mufti Talha Ahmad Azami, Shahzad Siddiqui, Jo Summers As a non-Muslim, the most striking thing for me about this subject is that many of the concepts dealt with are those with which any practitioner will grapple – identifying ...
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BOOK REVIEW Medico-Legal Report Writing in Civil Claims (Core Skills) (training)
Author: Expert Witness Institute For the benefit of both lawyer and medical expert, this online training is a useful tool to highlight the significant differences between reporting a medical opinion as an expert witness, and an expert’s work in ...
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BOOK REVIEW Freedom of Information Handbook (3rd edition)
Author: Peter Carey and Robin Hopkins Not a week passes without the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI) or information gathered using the FoI right of access appearing in the media.
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BOOK REVIEW Coalition (play)
Author: Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky Co-written by Robert Khan, head of law reform at the Law Society and an Islington councillor, there’s not a single aspect of Coalition, a biting and very funny satire on the dying months ...
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BOOK REVIEW Law Management Section Legal Aid Toolkit
Author: General editors: Andrew Otterburn and Vicky Ling My name is David and I am a legal aid lawyer. There, I have admitted my addiction. Many of us in the profession are addicted to legal aid. We started experimenting ...
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BOOK REVIEW Thompsons – A personal history of the firm and its founder
Author: Steve Allen Few legal practices can boast their own standards – material that is, not ethical – but Thompsons does. One of the venerable trade union and personal injury firm’s crimson-trimmed banners commemorates the role of founder W H (Harry) Thompson in the Poplar Borough Council cause célèbre of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Mullahs without Mercy: human rights and nuclear weapons
Author: Geoffrey Robertson QC This is a fascinating - but somewhat frustrating - book. The fascination comes from its grappling with a major issue of our time: the possession, acquisition and threat of nuclear weapons.
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BOOK REVIEW Managing Fraud Risk: a practical guide for directors and managers
Author: Steve Giles Steve Giles’ credentials to write this comprehensive and entertaining guide to managing fraud risk are unimpeachable. From involvement in the Polly Peck investigation over 20 years ago to lecturing around the world on the subject today, ...
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BOOK REVIEW Tomorrow’s Lawyers
Author: Richard Susskind Liberalisation is revolutionising the legal services landscape and one of the side effects is a rash of predictions from a multitude of sector commentators. But Professor Richard Susskind is different, one might argue – his ...