All Book reviews articles – Page 33
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BOOK REVIEW: Cyber Security Toolkit
There is plenty of guidance, checklists and examples, and a CD with precedents.
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BOOK REVIEW: No Bar to Success
An eminently readable account of an East End boy's route to silk.
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BOOK REVIEW: Crash Course: To Hell in a Handcart
Despite some mistakes this is a gripping and promising first novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Black Panther: The trials and abductions of Donald Neilson
Ex-law tutor Gordon Lowe brilliantly portrays the criminal mind.
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BOOK REVIEW: Times Change – Before the Children Act
At times this procedure-heavy novel reads like a law school case study.
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BOOK REVIEW: COLPs Toolkit (2nd edition)
This book is a toolkit complete with draft policies, checklists and procedures, all on a CD.
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BOOK REVIEW: Flack’s Last Shift
A prolific writer of non-fiction takes a confident stride with this debut novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: Profitability and law firm management (2nd edition)
Managing partners need to read this book, which can be dipped into or read at length.
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Christmas gift ideas: legal books
David Pickup runs through a selection of legal-themed books that could serve as stocking-fillers.
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BOOK REVIEW: Partner Remuneration in Law Firms
Usefully brings together expert views on a subject which is a continuing preoccupation for law firm leaders around the world.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
There is much to interest a lawyer-reader in Elizabeth Foyster’s account of the lunacy commission convened to decide whether the Third Earl of Portsmouth should be declared insane.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Legal Training Handbook (1st edition)
Training needs to be planned, budgeted for, and appraised – as this book attests.
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BOOK REVIEW: Mental Illness, Human Rights and the Law
This guide’s real value lies in the author’s examination of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.
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BOOK REVIEW: Law and Licensing: A Concise Guide for Shotgun and Rifle Owners (BASC Handbook)
A comprehensive overview of the law is followed by excellent advice on security.
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BOOK REVIEW: A Clinician’s Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act
The book is written in a direct and uncluttered style and the authors are not afraid to provide opinions on how to approach medico-legal issues.
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BOOK REVIEW: Breaking Law: The Inside Guide to Your Legal Rights and Winning in Court or Losing Well
At £20 for over 500 pages this book is great value.
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BOOK REVIEW: Family Law Protocol
Heralded as the ‘authoritative set of best practice guidelines’, this book merits that description.