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Building on the success of the past

Advantages: great detail for members of the Construction Bar
Disadvantages: heavy on detail for lay persons

...An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers Life at the Construction Law Bar is always an exciting and adventurous place and time to be, and any new piece of literature to add to the sum of our knowledge in ...

PhillipTaylor 14.06.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Construction Contracts: Law and Practice - Richard Wilmot-Smith QC

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Prescription for Murder

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A little while ago, I was browsing in a charity shop when I came across this book, all about Harold Shipman, the doctor famous (or should that be infamous) for murdering a large number of elderly ladies by injecting them with lethal doses of morphine . I ...

Thehonesttruth 11.08.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Harold Shipman - Brian Whittle, Jean Ritchie

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Just a Little Injection.....

Advantages: An excellently written book.
Disadvantages: It is naturally harrowing at times.

(Warner Books, £6.99). "Death….. the anaesthetic from which none come (sic) round". Philip Larkin. "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge." Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band. There are two main tra ...

Schmutzie 07.08.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Harold Shipman - Brian Whittle, Jean Ritchie

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Murder and Mayhem on the Mainline

Advantages: A gripping and often terrifying read.
Disadvantages: Willing suspension of disbelief is at times very difficult

This is the most bizarre book I have ever read. It concerns a group of 'unconventional' teachers in a Pennsylvanian High School. A group of teachers that no sane parents would let their children within a hundred miles of. Enter the School Principal, ...

Feyona 15.08.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Echoes in the Darkness - Joseph Wambaugh

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