All Feature articles – Page 162
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BOOK REVIEW Banks on Sentence
Author: Robert Banks Mrs Justice Rafferty describes Banks on Sentence as simply indispensable. Yet with devastating cuts continuing to be made to public funding for criminal cases, most firms are seeking to remove any unnecessary expenditure from their budgets. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Lexcel Risk Management Toolkit
Author: The Law Society Effective risk management has become increasingly significant within the legal profession in recent years. With the advent of the new risk-based regulatory regime on 6 October, firms will have to comply with principle 8 of ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Fair Society: the science of human nature and the pursuit of social justice
Author: Peter Corning Can law, with its focus on fair and just outcomes, ever be an effective counterweight to the hard power represented by the apparently more Darwinian forces of greed, power and money? This question is the central ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Law of Industrial Action and Trade Union Recognition
Author: John Bowers, Michael Duggan, and David Reade Recently I met a friend and former colleague. Pleased to see him, I greeted him with the usual enquiry about the state of his wellbeing. 'Well,' he answered, 'I ...
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BOOK REVIEW Reappraising the Resort to Force: International Law, Jus ad Bellum and the War on Terror
Author: Lindsay Moir Whatever else may have changed on 11 September 2001, international law did not.’ This was the blunt conclusion of Sir Michael Wood, once a legal adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As the 10th anniversary ...
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BOOK REVIEW Never Mind the Botox – Alex
Author: Penny Avis and Joanna Berry Alex Fisher is a high-flying lawyer close to making partner at City firm MacArthur Warren. A chance meeting with an old boyfriend provides the opportunity for her to secure a deal for the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Lexcel Client Care Toolkit (2nd Edition)
Author: The Law Society This is one of a series of six toolkits produced by the Law Society covering Client Care, Business Continuity Planning, Financial Management and Business Planning, Information Management, People Management and Risk Management. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Winning Legal Business from Medium-Sized Companies
Author: Dr Silvia Hodges While many books have been written on the subject of law firm marketing and business development, very few have focussed specifically on the crucial sector that is medium-sized companies. Silvia ...
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BOOK REVIEW Off Message: the complete antidote to political humbug
Author: Bob Marshall-Andrews QC What will the Blair era be remembered for? Iraq, New Labour and a new political term: spin. It was not a great period for lawyers despite the number of politicians ...
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BOOK REVIEW Promotional Marketing Law: A Practical Guide
Author: Philip Circus Many in-house and private practice lawyers who are called on to advise on advertising, marketing and sales promotions will be familiar with this Philip Circus’ series of books previously entitled Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing Law: ...
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BOOK REVIEW Whose Criminal Justice? State or Community?
Author: Katherine Doolin, John Child, John Raine and Anthony Beech Crime is a political football and always has been; each government wants to be seen to be tougher on criminals and yet also cut the prison population. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Pre-nuptial Agreements
Author: Iain Harris and Rachel Spicer Pre-nuptial agreements have always been the Cinderella of family proceedings but with one important twist – she has yet to go to the ball. They have been nibbling ...
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BOOK REVIEW Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook
Author: Steve Broach, Luke Clements and Janet Read Disabled children and their families face substantial barriers in their lives – they are financially worse off and have poorer standards of living than families who don’t live with disability, experience ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Hangman’s Fracture
Author: David Crigman David Crigman has been a successful criminal silk for many years but has managed to combine that demanding career with his 'part-time' job as a writer of crime fiction and his latest offering - his fourth ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Serpent Pool
Author: Martin Edwards The novel, by a partner at national law firm Weightmans, begins with a gruesome murder and ends with a suicide pact, the tension tightening like a bowstring in between. The author ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Art of Managing Professional Services: insights from the leaders of the world’s top firms
Author: Maureen Broderick The Art of Managing Professional Services joins a growing body of texts that treat professional services firms, most of them current or former partnerships, as businesses with their own ...
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BOOK REVIEW Drafting Employment Contracts (2nd edition)
Author: Gillian Howard Any book about forms and precedents is a valuable addition to any practitioner’s library – and this one is no exception. However, writing a book of forms and precedents in employment ...
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BOOK REVIEW Last Orders – The Essential Guide to Your Letter of Wishes
Author: Patricia C Byron Most Probate Solicitors will have encountered at some point the estate with little or no paperwork, the funeral to be arranged with no knowledge of the deceased’s preferences, or a family at loggerheads over the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Legal Marketing: What the client hires from the lawyer
Author: Francesc Dominguez and Iolanda Guiu Despite my best efforts to like this guide it failed to impress. Perhaps I’m just not ‘tuned in’ to the authors’ particular style or perhaps it was the opening dedication that turned me ...
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BOOK REVIEW Conveyancing Handbook, 12th edition
Author: General editor: Frances Silverman I was both delighted and apprehensive to be asked to review the new edition of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook: delighted because I got my review copy ahead of the press, and apprehensive because ...