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11 March 2016 / Keith Davies
Issue: 7690 / Categories: Features
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Book review: Trials & Tribulations: Uncommon Tales of the Common Law

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"This present book, which is a great read for any lawyer, is a collection of 50 stories of notable court cases"

Author: James Wilson
Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
ISBN: 9780854901715
Price: £14.99

James Wilson entered legal practice in both New Zealand and England, before becoming a legal editor and author. Wildy, Simmonds and Hill published his previous books: Cases, Causes and Controversies: Fifty Tales from the Law (2012), and Court and Bowled: Tales of Cricket and the Law (2014). He was joint editor, and contributor, of Cases that Changed our Lives: Volume II (Lexis Nexis, 2014). This present book, which is a great read for any lawyer, is a collection of 50 stories of notable court cases, which students of English law will never forget, as well as accounts of more up-to-date leading cases (where law clashed with religion or ethics or personal conscience).

“Trials and tribulations” are what the common law is about. First and foremost it is about disputes,

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