Reviews

Nick Wallis covered both the English and American court battles between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, his blogging and tweeting crowdfunded by his followers. Then he turned it all into a book, which is reviewed here by Paul Magrath. Reposted with permission from the Court and Tribunal Observers’ Network. … Continue reading about Book review – Depp v Heard: the unreal story, by Nick Wallis

Paul Magrath reviews a pivotal collection of essays and observations about the use of designerly thinking in legal education … Continue reading about Book review: Design in legal education, edited by Emily Allbon and Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Barrister and occasional judge Lucy Reed KC reviews what she finds to be an excellent book about the writing of judgments… Continue reading about Book review: The Art & Craft of judgment Writing

We review the educational charity’s latest report in which embryonic law students investigate and propose law reform on various topics.
… Continue reading about BVL: Model Law Commission Report 2022

Paul Magrath reviews a useful primer on an increasingly critical matter for lawyers. … Continue reading about Book review: Legal Data and Information in Practice by Sarah A Sutherland

Paul Magrath reviews a book by the founder of Bellingcat, explaining the history, work and future of the online investigative agency.… Continue reading about Book Review: We are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins

We swim in a sea of data. Our digital devices know where we’ve been, who we’ve communicated with, what we’ve looked at and how we’ve responded. As a result, each one of us is an open book. An open Facebook, indeed, or something similar. And we’ve allowed this to happen because we wanted to have… Continue reading about Book review: The Little Black Book of Data and Democracy by Kyle Taylor

“I have tasted the bitterness of injustice” Mahmood Mattan tells the imam who visits him in jail, as he awaits his execution for a crime we now know he did not commit. Mattan, a Somali seaman who has settled in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, has been fingered for the murder of Violet Volacki, a Jewish shopkeeper,… Continue reading about Book review: The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed

The Prorogation Case of 2019 forms both the centrepiece of the latest Supreme Court Yearbook, and the climax of a glittering legal career for the court’s president, Lady Hale, whose autobiography Paul Magrath reviews alongside… Continue reading about Book review: The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Vol 10 (2018-2019), and Spider Woman by Lady Hale