Book reviews – Page 52
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OpinionBOOK REVIEWS: Jack the Ripper
New ‘Ripperature’ from Guy Logan and Richard Whittington-Egan comes under the microscope.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Doped – The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang
A stylish trot through the committal proceedings, trials and appeals involving the doping gangs.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Scourge of Soho
Some interesting characters pop up in this chronicle of the enclave with a capacity to seduce.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Extradition Law, a practitioner’s guide
Now there is a single ‘must have’ handbook for extradition practitioners.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Social Networking for Law Firms
Social media is here to stay. This guide is good at explaining the issues and drawbacks when using it.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Guidebook to Intellectual Property
This excellent introduction to intellectual property is a cut above the typical student textbook.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK
The Profumo scandal has been so well picked over, a book that adds to our understanding is a surprise – but that is exactly what it does.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Fixed Fees in the Criminal Courts: A Survival Guide (3rd edition)
This complex area is explained in a clear way.
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OpinionTHEATRE REVIEW: Twelve Angry Men
Martin Shaw and Robert Vaughn star in this re-telling of a courtroom classic.
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OpinionTHEATRE REVIEW: The Scottsboro Boys
This production of the story of African-American teenagers falsely accused of rape is bold and dynamic.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Whores and Highwaymen – Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis
A very readable documentation of grizzly legal London in the 18th century. Are things better now?
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Blunders of our Governments
These respected authors confirm what Westminster watchers have suspected for a while – that recent UK governments have been particularly prone to policy blunders.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Legal Project Management, Pricing, and Alternative Fee Arrangements
This book looks at how to be attractive and therefore competitive to win and keep clients.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution
This book identifies the main issues that characterise the interaction between man-made law and divinely revealed law.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Drafting and Negotiating IT Contracts (3rd edition)
Two practitioners with wide-ranging experience in the IT industry have shared their combined know-how during these times of flux.
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EXHIBITION PREVIEW: New Life
Head to London’s Outer Temple Chambers to see a one-night-only exhibition of artworks from brain injury survivors.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Psychopaths – An Introduction
This little book looks at the development of study into this disorder, what it is and how to deal with sufferers.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Frozen Shroud
The latest novel from national firm Weightmans partner Martin Edwards leads the reader through the twists and turns of two investigations.
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BOOK REVIEW: People Power – A User’s Guide To Democracy
Political party season may seem a strange time to celebrate British democracy, but Dan Jellinek is an optimist.