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Murder in Ipswich

Advantages: An interesting insight from two different perspectives
Disadvantages: There are no answers

I find a certain fascination in true crime books so a quick glance along my bookshelf will reveal books about the Yorkshire Ripper, Harold Shipman and Fred and Rosemary West so I guess it was inevitable that sooner or later I would buy a book about Steve ...

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Review of Hunting Evil: Inside the Ipswich Serial Murders - Paul Harrison

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Advantages: great and very heavy on detail as is to be expected from Richard Hyland
Disadvantages: a bit obscure for some in places

SHOULD WE BEWARE OF GREEKS (OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER) BEARING THEM? An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend. But if she accepts them as a gift, the lass may n ...

PhillipTaylor 12.06.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Gifts: a Study in Comparative Law - Richard Hyland

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Meet Inspector Van Veeteren

Advantages: Engaging central character; great evocation of place
Disadvantages: Plot is not very original

When the call comes through Inspector Van Veeteren has his mind on his forthcoming holiday in Greece, and beyond that his retirement; a green Sergeant in the sleepy town of Maardam has been tipped off anonymously about the disappearance of a girl from the ...

fizzytom 06.10.2011 · Read full review
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Review of The Inspector and Silence - Hakan Nesser

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When a judge is asked to stand down

Advantages: a great addition in a rarely used and embarrasing area of law
Disadvantages: a confusing issue made worse by the establishment

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers One of the principles of natural justice is that no one can be a judge in his or her own cause. When this principle, or other similar principles are seen to have ...

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Review of Judicial Recusal - Hon Justice R.Grant Hammond

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East End Misery.

Advantages: It is a good read and makes you think?
Disadvantages: A bit gruesome.

...true life crime. I think it must come my ex profession in the forces. I like to read true life crime and try and understand why they did it or what makes them tick. I am not a Barbara Bradford Taylor or a Mills and Boon sort of pe ...

BUBBLES171 22.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The Diary Of Jack The Ripper - Shirley Harrison

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