All Book reviews articles – Page 49
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BOOK REVIEW The Forsyte Saga
Author: John Galsworthy Amazingly, it is 45 years since the BBC series of the Forsyte Saga and 10 years since the second one on ITV. The BBC version was extremely successful and commanded huge audiences. Many babies were named ...
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BOOK REVIEW Community Care Law and Local Authority Handbook (2nd edition)
Author: Jonathan Butler What is community care law? It is an area that has grown up comparatively recently and not easy to define. It is the law of obligations owed by the state - often local authorities - to ...
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BOOK REVIEW Taylor on Criminal Appeals (second edition)
Author: Paul Taylor (editor) This edition comes almost 12 years after the first and at what, for criminal lawyers, is a huge price. Is it worth having a copy in the office or will a library copy suffice? Against ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Magistracy at the Crossroads
Author: Edited by David Faulkner When you are next sitting in a magistrates' court waiting for your client to arrive, you might wonder why he was arrested in his hometown but that court does not hold custody cases - ...
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BOOK REVIEW Joy
Author: Jonathan Lee On a Friday afternoon at the glass offices of Hanger, Slyde & Stein in London’s Square Mile, newly promoted partner Joy Stephens is standing on a second-floor platform, giving a big speech to colleagues below her. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise
Author: Edited by Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber In this collection of essays on the 19th-century legal treatise, there emerges a detailed history of the rise of a form of legal literature that assumed to itself a high ...
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BOOK REVIEW Localism and Planning
Author: Simon Ricketts and Duncan Field Authors Ricketts and Field (both former barristers and now partners respectively in SJ Berwin and Wragge & Co) have done well to get such a comprehensive overview text off the stocks in such ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Little Book of Prison
Author: Frankie Owens Lawyers hardly get a mention in this beginners’ guide to surviving prison. This is surprising - to us lawyers at least - as we think we are essential. Surely we have roles in the interview, trial ...
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BOOK REVIEW Courting Publicity: Twitter and Television Cameras in Court
Author: Paul Lambert Hot on the heels of the super-injunction spring of 2011, Courting Publicity: Twitter and Television Cameras in Court seeks to inform the debate on what role social media and television reporting should play within the judicial ...
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BOOK REVIEW An Unusual Brief: the life and times of a High Street Lawyer
Author: Roger Terrell An Unusual Brief: the life and times of a High Street Lawyer, is the self-published memoir of solicitor Roger Terrell. The book is a chronological narrative, and Terrell’s account ...
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BOOK REVIEW Avoid Legal Pitfalls for Small Businesses
Author: Bevans Solicitors This book is ideal for start-up operations and businesses of fewer than 10 people - and any business lawyer who appreciates a well-informed client should hope that the entrepreneur-client has first read this Teach Yourself book. ...
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BOOK REVIEW Good Governance for Pension Schemes
Author: Paul Thornton and Donald Fleming This book is the first to combine an overview of UK pension schemes in their economic and legal contexts with a focus on the governance role of trustees. To the general reader of ...
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BOOK REVIEW Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions
Author: James E. Clapp et al Those of us who like to read John Grisham, watch Suits on television or just about any American thriller may sometimes need a handy dictionary to explain some legal expressions. I have always ...
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BOOK REVIEW Public Inquiries
Author: Jason Beer QC We live in an age of inquiry. On entering office, the coalition government inherited six ongoing inquiries. Within 14 months it had established three more, the most recent of which, the Leveson Inquiry into the ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Devil Dancers
Author: T Thurai The story of Ceylon’s emergence as an independent nation is less well-known than its larger neighbours that form the Indian subcontinent. This book is set in the 1950s and covers post-British rule and the resulting ethnic ...
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BOOK REVIEW Government and Information: The Law Relating to Access, Disclosure and their Regulation (4th edition)
Author: Ibrahim Hasan Access to information held by public officials is a controversial subject. Ever since the MPs’ expenses scandal, the WikiLeaks saga and even the phone-hacking scandal there seems to be an increasing demand for a clear explanation ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Solicitor's Handbook 2012
Author: Andrew Hopper QC and Gregory Treverton-Jones QC It only seems a short while since the 2011 edition came out at the same price of £74.95. The first question is: do we need another one? The answer is not ...
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BOOK REVIEW Death of a Circuit
Author: Graeme Williams Legal reminiscences are sometimes fairly dull but this is a delightful and readable account of the old assizes and quarter sessions system that held sway until 1972. It is written with particular reference to Oxford ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Construction of Contracts Interpretation, Implication and Rectification (second edition)
Author: Gerard McMeel For the commercial practitioner, Professor Gerard McMeel’s book is a salutary but highly rewarding read. To get a deal done, a reliance on office practice notes and standard forms is near universal.
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BOOK REVIEW Trade Secrets for Marketing Your Business Online
Author: Simon Newsham We must not forget that it is only two decades since the rules governing solicitors and barristers were relaxed allowing for the profession to properly begin marketing themselves. The way that we do business has changed ...