
"This present book, which is a great read for any lawyer, is a collection of 50 stories of notable court cases"
Author: James Wilson
Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
ISBN: 9780854901715
Price: £14.99
James Wilson entered legal practice in both New Zealand and England, before becoming a legal editor and author. Wildy, Simmonds and Hill published his previous books: Cases, Causes and Controversies: Fifty Tales from the Law (2012), and Court and Bowled: Tales of Cricket and the Law (2014). He was joint editor, and contributor, of Cases that Changed our Lives: Volume II (Lexis Nexis, 2014). This present book, which is a great read for any lawyer, is a collection of 50 stories of notable court cases, which students of English law will never forget, as well as accounts of more up-to-date leading cases (where law clashed with religion or ethics or personal conscience).
“Trials and tribulations” are what the common law is about. First and foremost it is about disputes, but only those which have come before the courts, whether criminal