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An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor MA of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, Reviews Editor, The Barrister, and Mediator
Well known Liberal Democrat, Norman Baker, contributes an important Foreword to this excellent new paperback from legal publishers, Waterside Press, “putting justice into words”.… Read more “Positive Analysis of Why the Misuse Of Drugs Act 1971 Needs to be Replaced”
I spent many happy hours appearing before Barrington Black at Harrow Crown Court, and I am therefore delighted to review his latest book, The Jewish Contribution to English Law: Through 1858 to Modern Times. It is a guide to eminent and some not so eminent Jewish lawyers of the 20th and 21st C, with short biographies of many who are in practice or on the Bench today.… Read more “Review of The Jewish Contribution to English Law”
About two thirds through this book a section heading reads ‘A Jewel Beyond Price’ or ‘A Bunch of Amateurs?’
The first is a quote from Lord Chief Justice Bingham and the second from an Open University report. Of course, the magistracy is both.… Read more “Brian P Block Review of Our Magistracy”
Tom Murtagh worked in key senior leadership roles in both the Northern Ireland Prison Service and Her Majesty’s Prison Service of England and Wales. He earned a reputation of being an insightful, strong and (especially) resilient leader – a leader who consistently demonstrated the ability to cut through to the core of an issue.… Read more “Alan Longwell’s review of The Maze Prison”
… Read more “John Semple’s review of The Maze Prison”
This book gives an accurate account of events as I recall them and sadly illustrates the dilemma all Northern Ireland Prison Service staff had to endure over the years of Long Kesh and Maze. It also highlights the folly of trying to operate a prison establishment like The Maze, with its highly dangerous convicted criminal population, while ignoring the views of prison professionals.
