Books are revived with a review of G.S. Nicholson detailing the prerequisites for becoming a solicitor and R Lowe writing about the changing dynamics of relationships, 'first step, write to Woman’s Own, next step, see a solicitor?'.

Law Society’s Gazette, September 1949

So you want to be a solicitor? By G.S. Nicholson, solicitor[book review] This book sets out very clearly the mechanism for becoming a solicitor… The author considers that the mental equipment of an intending solicitor need be only a rather pedestrian one and that a sense of proportion and a recognition of one’s own fallibility, coupled with a strong interest in other people and their thoughts and feelings, are the basic qualifications.

Law Society’s Gazette, 26 September 1979

Unmarried couples – money, children and the home, by R Lowe and GH Gypps[book review]Mistresses’ rights is a burgeoning new area of the law. ‘Could it happen here?’ articles are beginning to appear in the popular press, spin-offs of reports of cohabitees’ coups in the California courts. (The authors) are to be congratulated on their enterprise in jumping so soon on to a bandwagon which, though undoubtedly gathering speed, is not yet stampeding. There are no statistics on the number of people living together without benefit of clergy or registrar, but certainly marriage seems to be decreasing in popularity. If the number of letters to the ‘help’ pages of women’s magazines are anything to go by – first step, write to Woman’s Own, next step, see a solicitor? – practitioners can expect a steady trickle, if not a flood, of cohabitee cases over the next few years.