Recent Book: For Beginners in Law: A First Book of English Law
| Date | 01 January 1971 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7104400122 |
| Published date | 01 January 1971 |
| Author | F. Graham Glover |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
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not
of such frequent concern to the
police are given quite thorough
coverage. A comprehensive index
ensures
that
the reader has no problem
in finding his way
about
the mass
of
information which has been condensed
into so small a booklet.
The
author
has now the unenviable
task
of
settling down right away to
to produce the next edition, for the
Children and Young Persons Act,
1969, which substantially alters the law
regarding young Offenders, was imple-
mented in the autumn.
If
Mr Banwell
is able to achieve similar success with
the eighth edition 1 look forward to it
with interest. In the meantime the
present booklet will be invaluable to
women police officers and others
within the Police Service whose work
brings them into regular contact with
the younger generation.
P.R.
FOR
BEGINNERS IN LAW
O.
HOOD
PHILLIPS:
A First Book
of
English Law. Sixth Edition. Sweet and Max-
well. Hardback, £2.10.0; paperback, £1.2.0.
This
book
has now been on the English
law"-for,
in the acquisition
market for more
than
20 years, and of knowledge
of
a new subject, the
both
instructors and learners (some, concrete precedes the abstract, and,
perhaps, who have graduated from with a due appreciation
of
the various
the latter to the former category) are kinds
of
court and their functions, the
sufficiently familiar with its contents student will be in a position more
and
approach. Only those who have readily to grasp the somewhat com-
essayed the task of expounding the plex notions treated in the following
principles
of
English law to persons parts. Though only five years have
wholly unfamiliar with the subject are elapsed since the production
of
the
likely to appreciate the difficulties fifth edition, the legal changes which
involved. The
author
(Barber Pro- have taken place are considerable.
fessor
of
Jurisprudence and formerly New material of which note is taken
Dean
of
the Faculty
of
Law and include the Criminal Law Act 1967,
Director
of
Legal Studies in the the Criminal Justice Acts, 1967 and
University of Birmingham) is well 1968, the Criminal Appeal Acts, 1966
equipped by experience for the task, and 1968, and new legislation relating
and the fact
that
six editions, and four to Children and Young Persons,
and
additional "impressions", have been Family
Law-to
name only a few.
required during little more than twenty New decisions which have important
years is a measure
of
the success effects on previous law include Rondel
which has attended his efforts. After v. Worsley, R. v. Metropolitan Police
an introductory section on the charac- Commissioner
and
Overseas Tankship
teristics
of
English law the
book
(U.K.) Ltd. v. Miller Steamship Pty,
deals with the subject in three parts, Ltd, and the results
of
these
and
other
devoted respectively to the courts, cases are duly noted. Elementary as
sources
of
English law and general the
book
designedly is, the attentive
principles. This, if
not
the logical reader will obtain from it a real grasp
order, is best adapted to the readers
of
an elusive subject.
envisaged-"those
about
to embark,
for whatever purposes, on the study of F.
GRAHAM
GLOVER
January 1971 89
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