Book reviews – Page 49
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BOOK REVIEW Jack
Author: Helen Victoria Bishop (illustrations by Simon Murray) Looking sadly at a picture of his father, young Jack asks his cat: ‘Why did daddy have to leave?’ He wonders if the arguments and shouting were his fault, and ...
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BOOK REVIEW How to make partner and still have a life
Author: Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie The young practising solicitors who attended the Gazette’s roundtable for junior lawyers recently professed to be unconcerned about their prospects of making partner. The perceived obsolescence of the partnership structure; the corporatisation ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Sterling Redemption
Author: James Edmiston The Sterling Redemption is a story of alleged skulduggery and, possibly, criminal acts in the form of alleged perverting of the course of justice by the authorities, and it ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Man who Hunted Jack the Ripper
Author: Nicholas Connell and Stewart P Evans I wonder if Jack the Ripper actually existed. If he did not then a lot of time and speculation has been wasted on theories about the connections of a series of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Shardlake series – ‘Dissolution’ and others
Author: C. J. Sansom With the recent Booker Prize mantle having gone to a masterpiece about the life of Thomas Cromwell, perhaps now is the time to revisit CJ Sansom’s superb Tudor thrillers. The ‘Shardlake’ series bursts into the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Children and Cross-Examination: Time To Change The Rules?
Author: Edited by John R Spencer and Michael E Lamb The thesis of this collection of essays is that the treatment of a young child’s evidence in criminal proceedings needs to be radically changed. In 1989 the Pigot Committee ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Art of the Loophole: Making the Law Work For You
Author: Nick Frreeman Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman has attracted a lot of attention. Getting rich people off serious traffic matters has made him famous. He is a lawyer who most commonly appears in the press and other media. He ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Protest Handbook
Author: Tom Wainwright, Anna Morris, Katherine Craig and Owen Greenhall As unprecedented numbers take to the streets to engage in increasingly creative peaceful protest, we bear witness to rising instances of police hindering effective protest, often unlawfully. Having an ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Racketeer
Author: John Grisham A federal judge and his secretary have been found murdered at his lakeside cabin. No forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies and an empty safe. Malcolm Bannister is a lawyer halfway through serving a ...
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BOOK REVIEW Declining Prospects
Author: Michael H Trotter Michael Trotter has written a frank piece of professional introspection – a wake-up call for the largest corporate law firms who are used to generating extraordinary profits. Trotter looks at ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Social Cost of Litigation
Author: Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow The Social Cost of Litigation is an interesting read, even though it contains very little that is ‘new’ on the topic of the UK’s ‘litigation culture’. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act 2010 (2nd edition)
Author: John Wadham, David Ruebain, Anthony Robinson, and Susie Uppal (editors) This is not a review of the Equality Act 2010 but a review of a book about the act. You cannot legislate to make society equal let alone ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Forsyte Saga
Author: John Galsworthy Amazingly, it is 45 years since the BBC series of the Forsyte Saga and 10 years since the second one on ITV. The BBC version was extremely successful and commanded huge audiences. Many babies were named ...
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BOOK REVIEW Community Care Law and Local Authority Handbook (2nd edition)
Author: Jonathan Butler What is community care law? It is an area that has grown up comparatively recently and not easy to define. It is the law of obligations owed by the state - often local authorities - to ...
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BOOK REVIEW Taylor on Criminal Appeals (second edition)
Author: Paul Taylor (editor) This edition comes almost 12 years after the first and at what, for criminal lawyers, is a huge price. Is it worth having a copy in the office or will a library copy suffice? Against ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Magistracy at the Crossroads
Author: Edited by David Faulkner When you are next sitting in a magistrates' court waiting for your client to arrive, you might wonder why he was arrested in his hometown but that court does not hold custody cases - ...
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BOOK REVIEW Joy
Author: Jonathan Lee On a Friday afternoon at the glass offices of Hanger, Slyde & Stein in London’s Square Mile, newly promoted partner Joy Stephens is standing on a second-floor platform, giving a big speech to colleagues below her. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise
Author: Edited by Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber In this collection of essays on the 19th-century legal treatise, there emerges a detailed history of the rise of a form of legal literature that assumed to itself a high ...
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BOOK REVIEW Localism and Planning
Author: Simon Ricketts and Duncan Field Authors Ricketts and Field (both former barristers and now partners respectively in SJ Berwin and Wragge & Co) have done well to get such a comprehensive overview text off the stocks in such ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Little Book of Prison
Author: Frankie Owens Lawyers hardly get a mention in this beginners’ guide to surviving prison. This is surprising - to us lawyers at least - as we think we are essential. Surely we have roles in the interview, trial ...