Our individual book pages contain many reviews, but we also have many longer full-form reviews too and these are available here.
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation, edited by Kirstin Anderson (Waterside Press, 2024).
The Barlinnie Special Unit (BSU), which functioned from 1973 to 1994 in Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, was an innovative small unit within the Scottish prison system.… Read more “Some Reflections on ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit’, by Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms”
‘GENIUS’ is not a word you expect to see in a book about prisons. Yet there it is, as plain as day, on page 124, of this timely, though heart-wrenching book. Prison policy makers, from government officials through news managers, should be mandated to read at least chapter eight of this book (all 10 pages of it), every year, and then put in writing the three key points they then learn from doing so, with a clear commitment as to how they intend to put them into practice.… Read more “The Barlinnie Special Unit – Book Review”
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”
