All Feature articles – Page 169
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BOOK REVIEW Concert: Sound of Change
On 1 June I went to the Sound of Change Live concert at Twickenham, which was attended by 50,000 people, broadcast to more then 150 countries and watched by a billion people. The concert was presented by Chime for Change, a global campaign to promote ‘Education, ...
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Advising small businesses
Last week the Legal Services Board published research into the legal needs of small businesses (tinyurl.com/omgmthu).
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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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Troika measures making law ‘yesterday’s business’
The law has become ‘yesterday’s business’ in swathes of the EU as a combination of austerity and measures pushed through by the International Monetary Fund, European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank drive law firms to the brink of insolvency, the Gazette heard at the CCBE plenary session.
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FeatureLaw centres: living on the edge
Last week’s London Legal Walk, coming weeks after swingeing legal aid cuts were introduced, could be read as a show of strength by the whole legal community.
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Extradition: emerging pilot judgments
The European Arrest Warrant (EAW), introduced in 2003 to expedite the extradition of suspects accused or convicted of criminal offences within EU member states, has been fiercely criticised during its short life.
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Trademarks in toys and games – part one
A recent High Court judgment concerning the Scrabble ‘tile’ trademark highlights the tension between trademarks and the functional elements of toys and games.
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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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Costs management
In January 2010 Lord Justice Jackson published his Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report. The core recommendations are an interlocking package, and most were implemented on 1 April 2013 in the Civil Procedure (Amendment Rules) 2013, SI 262.
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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 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 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 ...