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Eerie reminders of the first lockdown

22 January 2021

Book review: Data Protection: Law and Practice (fifth edition)

By Rosemary Jay 

Published by Sweet & Maxwell (2020) 

ISBN  978-0414070967 

Reviewed by Anya Proops QC  

22 January 2021 / Anya Proops KC

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Returning to the fray

14 December 2020

Haldane: the Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain

By John Campbell 

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (2020) 

ISBN 9781787383111 

Reviewed by John Jolliffe  

14 December 2020 / John Jolliffe

Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

By Professor Mary Fulbrook   

OUP: 2018 (Wolfson History Prize 2019) | 

ISBN 9780198811237 

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor QC  

14 December 2020 / Patrick O’Connor KC

Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society

By Joshua Rozenberg   

Bristol University Press 2020 

ISBN 9781529204506 

Reviewed by David Wurtzel  

14 December 2020 / David Wurtzel

Lawyers in film: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Canonised (if sanitised) by lawyers and immortalised by Gregory Peck, what can Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch teach us about criminal justice today? By David Langwallner 

14 December 2020 / David Langwallner
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In a cocktail frame of mind

Coping with prohibition through methodological mixology, Shantanu Majumdar QC  reprises his social media cocktail recipe hits for a home-based NYE

14 December 2020 / Shantanu Majumdar KC
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GF Newman in conversation

Exclusive: the double BAFTA-winning author reveals who inspired the justice crusader Judge John Deed, where Deed would stand on the separation of powers, and why Law and Order  couldn’t be made today 

Interview by David Etherington QC  

14 December 2020 / David Etherington KC
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The perils of autobiography

30 November 2020
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Hope and expectation for the new legal year

The beginning of the legal year offers the opportunity for a renewed commitment to justice and the rule of law both at home and abroad

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