Book Review: Peter Thornton, The Later Years: The Simple Guide to Organising the Rest of your Life (Bedford Square. 2025, 337pp, paperback, £10.99) The only … Read More ›
Category: Book Reviews
Legal Action Group have recently sent me two books to review, one very long, and the other very short. This review can be short. They … Read More ›
Book Review: Anselm Eldergill, Matthew Evans and Eleanor Sibley, European Court of Human Rights and Mental Health (Bloomsbury, 2024, 1301 pp, paperback / ebook c £150) … Read More ›
Book review: Laura Mannering, A Practical Guide to Privacy, Transparency, Reporting Restrictions and Closed Hearings in the Court of Protection (Law Brief Publishing, 2024, 89 … Read More ›
Detention and its Alternatives under International Law (Lorna McGregor, Oxford University Press, 2023, 288 pages, hardback and ebook, £90) It might be thought that there … Read More ›
A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law (Nick Brindle, Michael Kennedy, Christian Walsh and Ben Alderson, Cambridge Medicine, 2023, paperback and ebook, 180 … Read More ›
Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics 12th edition (Anne-Maree Farrell and Edward S. Dove, OUP, 2023, paperback, 702 pages, c.£42). In some ways, … Read More ›
The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law (edited by Kay Wilson, Yvette Maker, Piers Gooding and Jamie Walvisch, Routlege, 2023, Hardback and Ebook) … Read More ›
Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work (edited by Jill Hemmington and Sarah Vicary, Policy Press, 2023, 203 pages, c £24.99) To get the bad … Read More ›
Suicide and the Law (Elizabeth Wicks, Hart, 2023, Hardback, £76.50; Paperback/eBook £61.20) This book by Elizabeth Wicks, Professor of Human Rights Law at the University … Read More ›