Recent Book: Some Law Books: Evidence
| Published date | 01 October 1972 |
| Date | 01 October 1972 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X7204500414 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
situation can the placing of such reliance on sociologically based
investigations at an operational level (Cain and Banton in parti-
cular) to refute a naively simplified view of the organization and
control of the service, be justified. Against the background of
this sort of gap it is not clear how far the judgment of
Ruth
Finnegan can be upheld that "the study of police in Britain is
thus a new and expanding subject in which there are likely to be
interesting developments over the next few years" (p. 194).
Despite these reservations an easily accessible volume on
public order which raises some of the fundamental legal, sociolo-
gical and governmental problems is welcome. Welcome because
it shows how little we know about the complex inter-relationships
between our institutions and the community.
It
is still possible,
as the volume points out, to produce excellent and widely acclaimed
textbooks on British Government (in this case Governing Britain
by A. H. Hanson and M. Wallis, Fontana 1970, but it is not the
only culprit) which do not mention the police. One by-product
of the tragic events in Northern Ireland may be to encourage serious
thought about public order.
'Public Order. Block II
of
Open University Second Level Course in Decision
Making in Britain. Open University Press 1972. Pp. 231. £2.20 SBN 33501941.
RECENT BOOKS
SOME
LAW
BOOKS
Reviewed by F. Graham Glover.
PATRICIA
A.
ThOMAS:
Evidence. 1972. Butterworths. £1.80.
This is
one
of a series of
Law
citations follow those of the All
Students' Companions being
pub-
England Reports in some instances
lished
under
the general editorship
but
not
others (the majority).
It
of Mr. D. G. Cracknell of the is
not
surprising to find
that
the
Middle Temple.
The
title of the
author
experienced difficulty in
book
marks
the subject
but
does selecting the cases for inclusion,
not, so to speak, indicate the
nature
having regard to recent changes in
of
the
companionship.
This
con- the law which have affected hither-
sists of brief descriptions of 336 to well established principles. Ex-
judicial decisions, nearly 200 ex- cerpts
from
the statutes are pre-
cerpts
from
Acts of Parliament, the sented in chronological
order
and
text
of
the Judges' Rules
and
arange
from
the Statute of
Frauds
glossary of Latin
and
other
words to the Nullity of Marriage Act 1971.
and
phrases.
The
cases are arrang-
The
student is thus provided in
ed in alphabetical order.
The
de-
potted
and
readily accessible
form
scriptions have
been
well
prepared
with information on several essen-
for
the readers envisaged.
It
is tial points relating to the subject
difficult to see why the Law Reports he is called
upon
to master.
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