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Book review: Kelly’s Legal Precedents (21st edition)

23 January 2015
Issue: 7637 / Categories: Features
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“One of the innovations in this edition is a plethora of e-trade precedents”

Editor: Roderick Ramage BSc (Econ)
Publisher: LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781405791137
Price: £318

Anything that has been going longer than Desert Island Discs—141 years in this instance—must be good. In fact, Kelly’s Legal Precedents is marvellous. I am in awe of it. I have never had the pleasure of rubbing pens at a LexisNexis bash with its principal editor and solicitor Roderick Ramage with whose NLJ back page, the Law in 101 words, you may be familiar and so I have no interest to declare.

My first encounter with Kelly’s was around 140 years ago when my prospective principal directed me to draft my articles of clerkship. Kelly’s had me honestly, diligently and faithfully serving the principal and obeying a multitude of commands. These were the seeds of my deep rooted servility and so Kelly’s has a lot to answer for but I forgive. I seem to recall a lot of drainage and too many quasi-easements and the like

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