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Book review: Leaving The Arena: a Story of Bar and Bench

By David Keene    

I.B. Tauris (Online Edition: 2020) ISBN 9781788318273 
Reviewed by John Bowers QC

11 August 2021 / John Bowers KC
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Book review: Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial

By Richard E Spear 

Paul Holberton Publishing (2020) ISBN 9781916237810 

Reviewed by Gilead Cooper QC 

  

03 August 2021 / Gilead Cooper KC

Secret E-Diary

Junior dependency syndrome

29 July 2021 / William Byfield
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Lawyers in film: Witness for The Prosecution (1957)

One of our most notable courtroom dramas is also a useful illustration of a barrister’s craft, writes David Langwallner

02 June 2021 / David Langwallner

Secret E-Diary

Spring is sprung

01 June 2021 / William Byfield

The redress of art and poetry

Marking Mental Health Awareness Week, and publication of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance's latest guide for prison staff, Tim Kiely looks at access to creative activity and how essential it is to the wellbeing of people in prison 

09 May 2021 / Timothy Kiely

Secret E-Diary

In memoriam 

01 May 2021 / William Byfield
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Book review: The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy

By Rupert Jackson 

Bloomsbury Academic (September 2020) ISBN 9781350149397 
Reviewed by Shantanu Majumdar QC

23 April 2021 / Shantanu Majumdar KC

Book review: Second Helpings

By Simon Brown 

Marble Hill Publishers (Hardback, February 2021) ISBN 9781838303617 
Reviewed by David Wurtzel

22 April 2021 / David Wurtzel
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Book review: Clustered Injustice and the Level Green

By Luke Clements, ISBN 9781913648077, Legal Action Group (December 2020)
 

Reviewed by Stephen Simblet QC 

01 April 2021 / Stephen Simblet KC
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