Priscilla Coleman has been drawing court scenes for over 20 years. The pictures collected here mark many of the most important trials of that period. There is a widespread misunderstanding among those who see pictures on TV or in the newspapers that an artist can sketch as much as they like in court. As lawyers know, far from taking a palate and easel into the public gallery, any attempt at photography, drawings or visual representations is strictly verboten. Artists have to memorise in court the colours, shades, clothing, facial mannerisms and physical idiocyncracies then go out and draw a likeness from memory . . . against the clock.

Court Scenes: The Art of Priscilla Coleman: The Court Art of Priscilla Coleman

Arts & Photography

Priscilla Coleman

Paul Cheston

Graphic Design

Wildy Simmonds Hill

On an August evening in 1928 May Donoghue, a shop assistant, entered a cafe in Paisley. The circumstances of her visit made legal history. A ginger beer was ordered for Mrs Donoghue who famously complained that, to her surprise and shock, a decomposed snail had tumbled from the bottle into her glass. Mrs Donoghue sued for the nervous shock she claimed to have suffered as a result. The question whether she had a case in law against the manufacturer of the ginger beer was argued as far as the House of Lords. It is hard to overstate the importance of the decision in Donoghue v Stevenson. It represents, perhaps, the greatest contribution made by English and Scottish lawyers to the development of the common law. Donoghue v Stevenson made it clear that, even without a contract between the parties, a duty of care is owed by 'A' to take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which could reasonably be foreseen as likely to cause injury to his neighbour: 'B'. This concept, developed by the great jurist Lord Atkin, has become known by the universal shorthand, 'the neighbour principle'. Who, Lord Atkin asked rhetorically, is 'in law' my neighbour? Donoghue v Stevenson provides the answer. The Snail and the Ginger Beer tells the full story of this remarkable case. It provides vivid biographical sketches of the protagonists and of the great lawyers who were involved in the case. It sets Donoghue v Stevenson in its historical context and re-evaluates the evidence. The roots of the neighbour principle are excavated in the parable of the Good Samaritan and the case law of the United States. The constitutional importance of the case is also dealt with; the blow it struck for a moral approach to the law which departed from a rigid doctrine of precedent. Finally, the book investigates the influence of Donoghue v Stevenson across the common law world: from the USA to the countries of what is now the Commonwealth.

The Snail and the Ginger Beer: The Singular Case of Donoghue V Stevenson

M Chapman

Legal History

The most comprehensive collection of Russian legal materials ever produced in the English language on Russian public law. This volume contains sixty-two enactments and documents, some unpublished even in the Russian language, in force and devoted to the constitutional foundations of the Russian Federation, publication of legislation, human rights, the Russian Presidency, Parliament, Government, and judicial system, domestic and international arbitration, courts of all types, justices of the peace, and the legal profession, broadly defined. In this volume the legal profession encompasses the advocate, jurisconsult, notary, procurator, and law enforcement personnel, including private detectives. Particular attention is given to documents which regulate the internal workings of the Russian presidency, parliament, government, and Constitutional Court in the form of `reglaments' and the judiciary generally.

Russian Public Law: The Foundations of a Rule-of-Law State - Legislation and Documents

W. Butler

Based on the author's popular Times Online column 'Weird Cases', this book draws on extraordinary cases from many countries, including the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Romania, and China. The result is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about the more bizarre aspects of human life that fetch up in the law courts at the beginning of the 21st century. Courts have seen judges do things like try to turn off a musical tie playing "We wish you a merry Christmas" while sentencing a defendant to prison, fall fast asleep in the middle of trials, flip a coin to decide a case, demand a foot massage from a clerk, and get sentenced for judicial racketeering. Courts have listened to the defences like that of a bogus dentist caught using DIY tools on his patients, a man who based his defence on being as hapless as Homer Simpson, and a woman who was running a brothel from an office in the criminal courts. Courts have seen a litigant sue for becoming pregnant by a stray sperm in a swimming pool, and a litigant suddenly strip naked before the judges. The cases featured in Weird Cases are those that truly stand out as odd, even among all the unusual dramas that challenge the courts. The chapters are: Compensation and Punishment, Love and Sex, Food, Drink, and Drugs, Judges, Death and Violence, Pets and Animals, On the Road, Lawyers, and Jurors, Friends, and Neighbours.

Weird Cases: Comic and Bizarre Cases from Courtrooms around the World

Humor & Entertainment

G Slapper

Humor

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to planning enforcement. Planning enforcement is often seen as a minefield that straddles planning and criminal law. This book provides a thorough guide helpful to Local Authorities and private sector practitioners on matters ranging from the decision to issue a notice through to proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 as well as dealing with the appeal system. Planning Enforcement sets out the very detailed technical complexities of enforcement through an easy-to-follow structure. The book draws together the statutory framework, case law and guidance. The authors intend the book to serve as a practical reference and include useful examples of Notices and appeal forms. Topics covered include: -Content and issue of an Enforcement Notice -Validity and nullity -Grounds of Appeal -Inquiry Procedure -Listed Building Enforcement Notice -Consequences of failure to comply including criminal prosecution and injunctive proceedings Planning Enforcement takes into account the ever-changing landscapes of planning law and guidance, including the Localism Act and the National Planning Policy Framework.

Planning Enforcement (Wildy Practice Guide) (Wildy Practice Guides)

Edward Grant

David Travers

Emmaline Lambert

Business

Ivan Aleksandrovich Il'in (1883-1954) has become in post-Soviet Russia one of the most eminent legal philosophers of the twentieth century. This volume brings to an international readership for the first time what is perhaps the most impassioned and prescient work by a Russian jurist in support of the rule of law. Il'in has heretofore been accessible only to those who have a command of Russian, German, or, exceptionally French, and even then primarily in circles where Russian emigre literature circulated. Originally written and in galley proofs between 1916 and 1919, the final work on legal consciousness was not published until 1956 in Germany and only in the 1990s in Russia, where it has generated considerable impact. Il'in's most original and influential contribution to legal theory, this long-awaited English translation will inform discussions of legal consciousness for decades to come. Il'in's monograph is accompanied by one of his early and influential articles on concepts of law and power and by essays devoted to Il'in and the rule of law; the origin and transformations of the concept of legal consciousness, and the origins of Il'in's treatise on legal consciousness, a glossary of key legal terms, and a bibliography of works by or devoted to Il'in.

On the Essence of Legal Consciousness (Studies in Russian and East European Law Series)

EDITED

I Il'in

Introduced and Translated by William E Butler

P T Grier and V A Tomsinov

Foreign & International Law

The Old Munster Circuit the legal memoirs of Maurice Healy, was first published in 1939 by Michael Joseph, and has reappeared in several editions over the last 60 years. It has been out of print in recent times and much sought after. This edition also contains a Biographical Introduction by Charles Lysaght. These amusing memoirs affectionately describe the workings and people of the Munster Circuit, where Healy practised from 1910 to 1914. Healy goes to some length in trying to describe and explain his countrymen to an English audience: "The difference of atmosphere between the two countries was exemplified in a case of my father's which came to be tried in London before Mr Justice Darling. The point at issue was the identity of a valuable picture, and hosts of witnesses, many of them humble Irish folk, were examined on either side. One of these Irishmen who had tuned his harp to the romantic air of his own County Court was a shock to a judge of pedestrian imagination. Darling at last turned to him sternly and said 'Tell me, in your country, what happens to a witness who does not tell the truth?' 'Begor, me Lord, ' replied the Irishman, with a candour that disarmed all criticism, 'I think his side usually wins.' One of Ten Literary Classics chosen by Gary Slapper in The Times Student Law Supplement of 18.10.2005. He writes: - ''Literature with a legal content is extensive and highly varied. The law is interwoven with all life, and students wishing to excel at law should read widely. The more styles, forms and epochs of literature you read, the better.'' Of The Old Munster Circuit he says A charming unstructured anthology of humorous legal anecdotes from Ireland. The stories include instances of judicial severity like that of Lord Justice Holmes's sentencing an old man from a farming community to 15 years. The convict cried for mercy saying he would not live to finish the sentence. "Well," said the judge, "try to do as much of it as you can!" Publishing History First Edition Michael Joseph 1939 Revised Edition Michael Joseph 1939 Reprinted Michael Joseph 1948 Reprinted Wildy &amp; Sons 1977 Reprinted Mercier Press 1979 Reprinted Mercier Press 1986 Reprinted with new Biographical Introduction by Wildy &amp; Sons 2001 Reprinted by Wildy, Simmonds &amp; Hill Publishing 2015

The Old Munster Circuit (Wildy Classics Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Maurice Healy

Professionals & Academics

The Law of Rights of Light is a new and comprehensive treatment of the controversial topic of rights of light. It considers how rights can be established, what constitutes an infringement of those rights and what remedies can be provided for the infringement of those rights. It explains how claims may be defended and rights overridden using the mechanism under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s.237. By setting the law in its wider context, the book seeks to show that, despite the technicalities which arise, there are no legal problems with which a competent lawyer cannot grapple. The book benefits from two technical appendices by Point 2 Surveyors. The first explains how light is measured; the second how losses are valued. These appendices also explain the limits of current methodology. These limits leave current methods ripe for reconsideration by the Courts. The book will be an essential addition to the shelves of lawyers, surveyors and other property professionals.

The Law of the Rights of Light

Jonathan Karas

As an essential part of the conveyancing process, the purchaser of property or land carries out a search at the local authority offices to discover if there are any planning; environmental health; highways or water restrictions appertaining to the property or land to be purchased. The new edition of this popular work provides a clear and concise commentary on the new Forms Con29 and Con29O and on the current version of Form Con29DW (Water and Drainage Enquiries). For the first time Form Con 29 now has enquiries relating to surface water drainage schemes, heritage partnership agreements, flood and coastal erosion risk management, community infrastructure levy, assets of community value, flood consents and land drainage consents. The sixth edition of this book examines each enquiry in turn, and clearly sets out the relevant and up-to-date legal position with sources and references. The authors then provide a summary of the implications of any reply by the local authority or water company concerned, positive or negative, so that a prospective purchaser can make a balanced decision as to whether to proceed with the purchase. Enquiries of Local Authorities and Water Companies: A Practical Guide provides an invaluable reference for the conveyancing practitioner, local land charges officer or estate agent.

Enquiries of Local Authorities and Water Companies: A Practical Guide

Keith Pugsley

Ken Miles

The history of  Butterworth's, England's leading law publisher, falls into four parts - the 19th century when it was sedately and modestly run by its eponymous founders; the first four decades of the 20th century when it was dynamically built by Stanley Bond; the thirty-five years following Bond's death in 1943, when the company was owned by the Bond Family Trust; and the years since 1965 when Butterworth's/LexisNexis became a division of the International Publishing Corporation, which later became Reed International and latterly Reed Elsevier.  This book covers the third of these four periods. Stanley Bond, a largely unrecognised publishing genius, built Butterworth's, over a period of fifty years, from obscurity into a major publishing house. In his will, he placed control of the company in the hands of a trust, to which he expressed his wish that his company should be preserved for his two sons. This did not happen. The company was sold twenty-four years after Bond's death. How this came about is a story of intrigue and power play, in researching which the author had access to confidential archives and was able to interview witnesses of the drama. The result is a tale that throws light on the mores of privately-run companies sliding unwillingly into the era of corporate ownership. Bond made very few mistakes in his publishing career, but there was one chink in his armour. He left it too late to get married, too late that is to father children who could take over the business after his death. When he died aged 65 in 1943 his two sons were aged three and one.  By a strange quirk of fate, the author Gordon Graham employed Ian Bond in 1965/66 without knowing his connection with Butterworth's. He also met many of the other participants in the drama, including the one man, who, above all, was responsible for thwarting Stanley Bond's plans: his Nemesis.

From Trust to Takeover

Graham, Gordon

Business & Money

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