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Barry Rose Law Publishers Limited is an independent publishing house
centered in Chichester on the South Coast. The guiding force at the time of its formation
then and still today is Barry Rose - an editor of immense experience in the legal
field. The firm's main interest is to publish legal textbooks which are of practical everyday worth as well as of good academic quality. The output of the firm in terms of law books is quite extraordinary as will be seen from the full catalogue, please send for it. A selection of books from our catalogue:
This book is a highly accessible map of medical law. It starts with the law relating to pre-birth issues and then moves through the law of consent, confidentiality and clinical negligence to the law of death - including end of life decision-making and the law relating to the ownership of body parts. It looks critically at all the cases that have made law and headlines in recent years, and demystifies the subject by identifying the small number of prinicples which have made the judges decide as they have. Price: £25.00 plus postage and packing £2.50 (UK), £3.50 (overseas) 215 pages ISBN 1 902681 53 3
Rob Manning is not only (as a lawyer) well qualified to write such a book, but also is a Black Belt at Karate. We are sure this book will be found of value to all who are apprehensive as to the possibility of being attacked, and what to do about it. Nurses and individual staff - for some unaccountable reason - seem to be a special target for those helping society and it seems that such people are often in a vulnerable position. Price: £12.50 plus postage and packing £1.50 (UK), £2.50 (Overseas) 209 pages ISBN 1 902681 44 4
The owner of any property, however small, in England and Wales can be liable in certain circumstances to pay for repairs to the chancel of a medieval parish church in his locality. Until a recent case decided in the House of Lords led to a farmer and his wife being called on to pay a £95,000 bill, many property owners, convenyancers and parochial church councils had ignored this apparently remote corner of the law. Now, especially as a result of the Land Registration Act 2002, chancel repair liability has become a live issue. The need for searches to establish whether any particular land may be affected is increasingly recognized. This book - believed to be the first of its kind - provides practical information on how to make these searches. It does not set out to be a legal textbook, but to enable lawyers, laymen and churchmen to understand the background and sources of information available so that they can discover so far as possible when, and to what extent, liability may exist. Price: £12.00 plus p&p £2.00 (UK), £3.00 (Overseas) Paperback 109 pages ISBN 1 902681 51 7
The 'Born Alive' rule-which holds that a person cannot be held responsible for injuries inflicted on a foetus in utero unless and until it is born alive-was established at a relatively early stage in the history of the Common Law and has since become entrenched, particularly in English Law. In America the rule has been abrogated in a number of circumstances, first in civil law and, more recently, criminal law. This book is concerned primarily with the application of the rule in Enlgand and the USA, although reference is made to the case law of some Commonwealth countries. Despite the plethora of case references, the book reads easily and Dr Casey has produced a book that, bearing in mind its emotional subject matter, is written dispassionately and comprehensively. He ends his introduction thus: 'The born alive rule is a classic example of a rule whose raison d'etre has long since disappeared; it is time to give its corpse a decent burial.' Price: £30.00 plus p&p £3.50 (UK), £4.50 (Overseas) Hardback 250 pages ISBN 1 902681 46 0
Heward writes interestingly of each: Cairns, for example, was said to be the member most trusted in Disraeli's two cabinets. Bowen was counsel for the Tichborne Claimant - the stress caused by this case apparently exerted such a strain that Bowen never fully recovered and as a result abandoned his hopes of becoming an M.P., going on the Bench while still, for those days, the ridiculously young age of 45; Jessel, who after surviving an assassination attempt (which temporarily deafened him) went on to preside in Court after writing a letter of reassurance to his wife. This may well be Heward's last book, but he has made it a very interesting one. Price: £22.00 plus p&p £2.50 (UK), £3.50 (Overseas) Hardback 264 pages ISBN 1 902681 32 0
International Contracts by the late Professor Kaye, has been thoroughly revised and is now published in a Second Edition. Always useful for the use of the non-specialist lawyer, the book's second edition (by a practising member of the Bar, Martyn Berkin) has been enlarged to increase its usefulness to the practitioner confronted with the drafting or advising on any contract with a foreign element or simply transacted with a foreigner. In addition, the new layout and contents of the second edition contains fresh chapters on European Judgments Conventionn, choice of law and jurisdiction clause and preliminary rulings by the ECJ. Price: £35.00 plus p&p £3.00 (UK), £4.10 (overseas) Paperback 289 pages ISBN 1 902681 47 9
Although, in recent decades, the study of England's early modern crime problems and its criminal justice system has flourished, there has been a general tendency for existing studies to focus either on crime, largely the province of social historians, or procedure, which is frequently left to legal historians. However, the two were inextricably interlinked; crimes were primarily defined by their legal consequences and trials were shaped by the social backgrounds to offences. Price: £27.00 plus p&p £5.00 UK & Overseas Hardback 921 pages ISBN 1 902681 41 X
So far as the authors and publishers are aware, Charging Orders Against Land: Law, Procedure and Precedents is still the only book dealing exclusively with the subject of charging orders. This second edition has been written by two authors who between them have nearly 25 years' experience as District Judges and over 45 years in private practice. This enables them to deal authoritatively not only with the litigation aspects of charging orders but with conveyancing and other aspects as well. It may come as something of a surprise to the reader whose practice is based mainly on litigation to find that the longest chapter in the book is taken up with conveyancing matters such as protection by registration and priorities. Price: £60.00 plus p&p £3.50 (UK), £5.00 (Overseas) Hardback 400 pages ISBN 1 902681 42 8
This book is not intended to be an autobiography, but to consist of certain key matters such as Barry Rose's participation in the Ramsay Willis Inquiry at Bognor Regis UDC, the development for caravans at Church Farm at Pagham, the saving of Pagham Harbour and other matters of local intererst which can now hold a certain fascination for those interested in recent local history. It also covers part of his professional life in running the world's oldest weekly legal journal, both as editor and later as proprietor and domestic incidents in that area. He is currently the proprietor of a small law book publishing company. Price: £9.50 plus p&p £2.00 Hardback 210 pages ISBN 1 870234 05 7
Brian Harris is not only recognised as a leading silk in this field - he has also had extensive experience of a practical natura as chairman of Appeal AAT andas Director, Eecutive Committee Joint Disciplinary Tribunals SFA and PIA. Now for this as for the previous edition, he is assisted as consulting editor by two barristers who have themselves also specialised in this field: Andrew C. Carnes and Garrett Byrne. Price: £95.00 plus p&p £6.00 (UK), £7.00 (Overseas) Hardback 656 pages ISBN 1 902681 38 X
The latest legal biography to come from John Hostettler is that of Matthew Hale - a man who made a unique and lasting contribution to the consolidation of the Rule of Law which in many respects remains with us today. A Royalist at the time of Cromwell, a true Puritan in his life, a master of contradiction: probably the only cases upon which he ever made foolish judgments were upon alleged 'witches' (the Salem cases) - which Hostettler faithfully records. Price: £24.00 plus p&p £2.00 (UK), £2.75 (Overseas) Hardback 247 pages ISBN 1 902681 28 2
Campbell's introduction speaks of human beings and their failings; of dyed-in-the-wool villains, of murderers and drug dealers; of attempts to kill police officesr who came too close to corrupt colleagues, evil activities, and of self-protecting screens erected around highly placed offenders both inside and outside the police. The book is divided into three main parts - Metropolitan Police is the largest, with its responsibility for a huge and culturally diverse London population, and New South Waless Police, stigmatized by the press as the most corrupt police service in Australia, with the New York City Police, largest of the three with deeply entrenched history of corrupt practices. Price: £29.50 plus p&p £1.85 (UK), £2.60 (Overseas) Hardback 278 pages ISBN 1 902681 29 0
Dr Lowenstein has for many years been involved in personal injury cases as an expert witness, and has at times written them up for various learned journals. Some of the material is re-printed, all being updated where appropriate. Price: £54.85 plus p&p £4.00 (UK), £5.00 (Overseas) Hardback 532 pages ISBN 1 902681 30 4
The Criminal Justice Act 1972 made provision for the introduction of community service orders in England and Wales. In analysing the background to this, many commentators adopt the view that community service is only in detail a novel disposal given that work-based penal sanctins go back a long way in penal history. By providing a snapshot of sanctions such as impressments, houses of correction, transportation, hulks and penal servitude, some commentators believe that these were probable reasons leading to the creation of community service. This book gives more positive and genuine claims of relevance in respect of the germs of the community service order trial. Such an approach will assist commentators on community service to avoid distorting the complexities of the past enabling these to conform with the realities of the present. Price: £55.00 plus p&p £4.50 (UK), £4.90 (Overseas) Hardback 711 pages ISBN 1 902681 21 5
This book is intended to bring up to date Price: £32.00 plus p&p £2.00 (UK), £2.50 (Overseas) Special Offer together with softcover LAW OF THE MANOR £65.00 (combined price) plus p&p £5.00 (UK), £6.00 (overseas) Paperback 155 pages - ISBN 1 902681 39 8
Before the Great War his mother braved the early Trans-Siberian railway to marry a young vice-consul in China. Born and schooled there in Tientsin, the author was told by the family's Calvinist governess that he was predestined to damnation, which laid the foundations to his atheism. The Japanese invasion forced the family to return to their native Edinburgh. A good classical education there got him a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. He spent most of 1940 as an officer cadet before choosing a Highland regiment. Back at the Scottish Office he wrote a PhD thesis at weekends, was Private Secretary to the Earl of Home, and then became responsible for criminal justice, including the death penalty. At Cambridge he succeeded Leon Radzinowicz at the Institute of Criminology, where funds were running short and teaching needed more attention. After refusing an invitation from one college he was lucky to be made a Professional Fellow of King's, Cambridge, which he found tolerant and congenial. He has salty things, however, to say about the Cambridge ethos. He discusses myths and missions, but with his usual light-hearted astringency. The book has a foreword by his daughter, a clinical psychologist. Price: £22.00 plus p&p £1.80 (UK), £2.35 (Overseas) Hardback 203 pages ISBN 1 902681 40 1
Hostettler questions whether a different road could have been taken after the Bolshevik Revolution had succeeded. He concludes that Stalin's Russia signals a warning against taking a wrong path in seeking human liberty and equality. Revolutionary law is no law at all and is no substitute for the rule of law. Price: £22.00 plus p&p £2.50 (UK), £3.00 (Overseas) Hardback 250 pages ISBN 1 902681 36 3
This biography is particularly timely. It is of Lord Schuster, who was Permanent Secretary to no fewer than 10 Lord Chancellors - an unbeatable record in any event, and now the Lord Chancellor's very existence appears under threat, although the origins of the office are lost in the mists of antiquity (it is believed to be some 1400 years old), Lord Schuster belongs to a generation very close to our own - he died in 1951). The joint authorship of the book is appropriate: a former Circuit Judge and the former Head of a Department in the Lord Chancellor's Office. It is a very readable volume, and also illuminating. Never again will we see any one person in charge of a mighty Department of State - that does not reduce its attractiveness as a book that must be read for an understanding of the background to the present situation, quite apart from its biographical qualities relating to Schuster. Price: £23.00 plus p&p £2.50 (UK), £3.50 (overseas) Hardback, 335 pages ISBN 1 902681 35 5
Ireland has the second highest consumption of alcohol per head of any country in the world, taking second place to Luxembourg. This book is superb in its coverage of the very wide range of various aspects of alcohol - its use and misuse. Although most of the essays relate to Ireland, the editors have included work on the problems as they occur in England, Wales and Scotland, for, as they remark, although the main focus remains on Ireland, there is more than a common legal tradition between the countries. The editors say in their preface that there is something quintessentially Irish about Ireland's relationship with alcohol; it was their ambition to bring together a collection of papers that otherwise would never be found between a common set of covers. They have succeeded in this comprehensive, yet most readable of volumes. Price: £27.50 plus p&p £3.00 (UK), £3.40 (overseas) Hardback, 431 pages ISBN 1 902 681 33 9
Black traces the evolution of the concept of mentally disordered offenders and of the appropriate condition for their accommodation, as well as providing the insights into the nature of their disorders, and their treatment strategies. The book is not just the story of Broadmoor - a magnifying glass through which we may see the concepts and reappraisals we need to make about sadness, madness and badness generally. Price: £75.00 plus p&p £4.30 (UK), £5.50 (overseas) Hardback, 667 pages ISBN 1 902681 34 7
The author presents linked narrative of such subjects in this book, supported by statutory extracts, ministerial guidance and precedent documents as appropriate. Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn wirtes in his foreword: Price: £42.00 plus p&p £5.50 (UK), £6.50 (overseas) Hardback, 963 pages ISBN 1 872328 94 6
This book (described by one
reviewer as "massive": its actual size is 4,629 pages covering five volumes)
is the sequel to the author's much acclaimed "Civil Jurisdiction and
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments" published in 1968. A reviewer wrote: If
you lay any serious claim to being a Convention Lawyer, you must have this
work." The Times (in terms relating to Kaye's early death) spoke of Peter
Kaye as having been probably Britain's leading authority on the intricacies
of the Brussels Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and
Commercial matters, which unified On Offer for £150.00 plus postage In 5 volumes 4,629 pages ISBN 1 902681 04 5
Crime and Punishment impinge upon the lives of us all as citizens. Here is a book happily devoid of turgid statistics which deals with the human side of crime as seen through the eyes of a leading magistrate sitting in a world-famous Court. Price: £17.50 plus p&p £1.60 (UK), £2.40 (overseas) Hardback 242 pages ISBN 1 872328 89 X
Stephen White has written extensively on Criminal Law and this book is about one of the oddities of the Criminal Law, which even at this remove in time, has much fascination. The book deals with a person who discharged a revolver, apparently at Queen Victoria, whilst she was on her way from the railway station to the Castle at Windsor. A considerable body of evidence of the derangement of Maclean; four doctors prior to his trial all gave their opinions that Maclean was insane; subsequently two other doctors expressed the opinion to the contrary. But the account is flavoured by the lack of understanding of Queen Victoria - why he had not been found guilty because she saw him fire his revolver at her? Disraeli as the Prime Minister at the time, was responsible for piloting a Bill through Parliament to meet the Queen's wishes - it was a very odd piece of legislation indeed and something of an embarrassment resulting in both incomprehension and ridicule at the time. The law was changed in 1964 Paperback, 98 pp Price: £17.50 plus postage and packing £2.00 (UK), £3.00 (overseas) ISBN 1 872328 13 X
Public sympathy for Tibet, oppressed by its giant neighbour China, has always been evident in the United Kingdom. However, the government of the United Kingdom has not always reflected this attitude. In the pages of this book by Martyn Berkin is to be found a story of betrayal and indifference (despite Tibet's legitimate claims in international law terms). This book (more than 400 pages in length) deals with the status on Tibet in International Law (Mr Berkin is a barrister) and International Policy on Tibet in addition to the historical background. The book contains constitutional documents and basic treaties. It is a book of studied moderation in the face of appalling treatment by one large state towards a smaller one. The behaviour of the United Nations and particularly, the role of the United Kingdom in the matter, has been chronicled fairly and fully in this extensive book. Constitutional documents and basic treaties are included. £43.50 plus postage and packing £3.50 (UK), £4.50 (overseas) ISBN 1 902681 11 8, 430 pp
As the author writes in the Preface to the book: The
justification for this fresh book is that the English persecution of
witches was overwhelmingly a secular legal phenomenon, rather than the
result of popular or ecclesiastical action. Prior to it becoming a secular
crime, it appears to have been of little significance. With its
decriminalisation (both de facto and de jure), it gradually died out as a
topic of concern. This book is aimed at remedying a lacuna in recent
scholarship by making a proper examination of the subject in its legal
context, as well as providing a more general history of the phenomenon. A
book of scholarship as well as of compelling interest. By the author of
the much acclaimed "Moll Flanders: An 506
pp Hardback Price: £34.00 plus postage and packing £2.50 (UK), £3.50 (overseas) ISBN 1 872328 73 3 |
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