All Book reviews articles – Page 48
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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 ...
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BOOK REVIEW Coalition (play)
Author: Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky Co-written by Robert Khan, head of law reform at the Law Society and an Islington councillor, there’s not a single aspect of Coalition, a biting and very funny satire on the dying months ...
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BOOK REVIEW Law Management Section Legal Aid Toolkit
Author: General editors: Andrew Otterburn and Vicky Ling My name is David and I am a legal aid lawyer. There, I have admitted my addiction. Many of us in the profession are addicted to legal aid. We started experimenting ...
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BOOK REVIEW Freedom of Information Handbook (3rd edition)
Author: Peter Carey and Robin Hopkins Not a week passes without the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI) or information gathered using the FoI right of access appearing in the media.
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BOOK REVIEW Thompsons – A personal history of the firm and its founder
Author: Steve Allen Few legal practices can boast their own standards – material that is, not ethical – but Thompsons does. One of the venerable trade union and personal injury firm’s crimson-trimmed banners commemorates the role of founder W H (Harry) Thompson in the Poplar Borough Council cause célèbre of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Mullahs without Mercy: human rights and nuclear weapons
Author: Geoffrey Robertson QC This is a fascinating - but somewhat frustrating - book. The fascination comes from its grappling with a major issue of our time: the possession, acquisition and threat of nuclear weapons.
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BOOK REVIEW Managing Fraud Risk: a practical guide for directors and managers
Author: Steve Giles Steve Giles’ credentials to write this comprehensive and entertaining guide to managing fraud risk are unimpeachable. From involvement in the Polly Peck investigation over 20 years ago to lecturing around the world on the subject today, ...
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BOOK REVIEW Tomorrow’s Lawyers
Author: Richard Susskind Liberalisation is revolutionising the legal services landscape and one of the side effects is a rash of predictions from a multitude of sector commentators. But Professor Richard Susskind is different, one might argue – his ...
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BOOK REVIEW Jack
Author: Helen Victoria Bishop (illustrations by Simon Murray) Looking sadly at a picture of his father, young Jack asks his cat: ‘Why did daddy have to leave?’ He wonders if the arguments and shouting were his fault, and ...
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BOOK REVIEW How to make partner and still have a life
Author: Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie The young practising solicitors who attended the Gazette’s roundtable for junior lawyers recently professed to be unconcerned about their prospects of making partner. The perceived obsolescence of the partnership structure; the corporatisation ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Sterling Redemption
Author: James Edmiston The Sterling Redemption is a story of alleged skulduggery and, possibly, criminal acts in the form of alleged perverting of the course of justice by the authorities, and it ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Man who Hunted Jack the Ripper
Author: Nicholas Connell and Stewart P Evans I wonder if Jack the Ripper actually existed. If he did not then a lot of time and speculation has been wasted on theories about the connections of a series of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Shardlake series – ‘Dissolution’ and others
Author: C. J. Sansom With the recent Booker Prize mantle having gone to a masterpiece about the life of Thomas Cromwell, perhaps now is the time to revisit CJ Sansom’s superb Tudor thrillers. The ‘Shardlake’ series bursts into the ...
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BOOK REVIEW Children and Cross-Examination: Time To Change The Rules?
Author: Edited by John R Spencer and Michael E Lamb The thesis of this collection of essays is that the treatment of a young child’s evidence in criminal proceedings needs to be radically changed. In 1989 the Pigot Committee ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Protest Handbook
Author: Tom Wainwright, Anna Morris, Katherine Craig and Owen Greenhall As unprecedented numbers take to the streets to engage in increasingly creative peaceful protest, we bear witness to rising instances of police hindering effective protest, often unlawfully. Having an ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Art of the Loophole: Making the Law Work For You
Author: Nick Frreeman Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman has attracted a lot of attention. Getting rich people off serious traffic matters has made him famous. He is a lawyer who most commonly appears in the press and other media. He ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Racketeer
Author: John Grisham A federal judge and his secretary have been found murdered at his lakeside cabin. No forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies and an empty safe. Malcolm Bannister is a lawyer halfway through serving a ...
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BOOK REVIEW Declining Prospects
Author: Michael H Trotter Michael Trotter has written a frank piece of professional introspection – a wake-up call for the largest corporate law firms who are used to generating extraordinary profits. Trotter looks at ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Social Cost of Litigation
Author: Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow The Social Cost of Litigation is an interesting read, even though it contains very little that is ‘new’ on the topic of the UK’s ‘litigation culture’. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Blackstone's Guide to the Equality Act 2010 (2nd edition)
Author: John Wadham, David Ruebain, Anthony Robinson, and Susie Uppal (editors) This is not a review of the Equality Act 2010 but a review of a book about the act. You cannot legislate to make society equal let alone ...