All articles by James Morton – Page 13
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BOOK REVIEW Gangland Soho
Author: James Morton The Gazette’s own James Morton, stalwart of Obiter, is a serial chronicler of London’s inter- and post-War gangland and its retinue of hangers-on, including the often dubious lawyers and journalists who operated on its fringes. ...
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Catching clients
One of the troubles with criminal clients of the 1970s was their ‘out of court – out of mind’ syndrome, writes James Morton.
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The history of the Ponzi scheme
The arrest of financier Bernard Madoff on suspicion of running a $50bn fraud offering to pay a steady if suspicious 12% return on investments in good and bad times has had everyone nodding their heads wisely saying, ‘Oh, yes, a Ponzi scheme’. But how many know who Ponzi was or ...
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Short & sweet ruminations on the law
The Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series is nearing its 200th volume and Raymond Wacks, emeritus professor of law and legal theory at the University of Hong Kong, has been given the challenging task of adding law to a collection which already includes Kafka, De Sade, feminism and the ...