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Book review: A Statue for Jacob by Peter Murphy
Paul Magrath reviews the latest novel from Peter Murphy, in which present day lawyers battle over a historical injustice dating from the American War of Independence. … Continue reading
Book review: Verbal, by Peter Murphy
Paul Magrath reviews the latest courtroom thriller from Peter Murphy, in which barrister Ben Schroeder deals with a case involving spies, drug dealers and high level police corruption.… Continue reading
Book review: Judge Walden – Call the Next Case by Peter Murphy
Open and shut cases: Paul Magrath reviews the latest collection of entertaining curiosities from the Resident Judge of Bermondsey Crown Court… Continue reading
Book review: Judge Walden – Call the Next Case, by Peter Murphy
In a guest post, Mr Justice Dingemans reviews the latest collection of short stories about the resident judge of a fictional Crown Court… Continue reading
Book review: One Law For the Rest of Us, by Peter Murphy
The latest novel to chart the career of Peter Murphy’s increasingly successful young criminal barrister Ben Schroeder combines the horribly contemporary issue of historic sexual abuse with a gripping courtroom drama in which the laws of evidence and the interests of national security are in play, set during the murky political era of the early 1970s.… Continue reading
Book review: Judge Walden – Back in session, by Peter Murphy
Paul Magrath reviews the second volume of Peter Murphy’s entertaining short stories about the Resident Judge of Bermondsey Crown Court This second volume of short stories about Charlie Walden, the resident judge of Bermondsey Crown Court, confirms his status as one of the enduring characters of legal fiction. But although the tales are told with… Continue reading
Book review: Walden of Bermondsey, by Peter Murphy
Reviewed by Paul Magrath His Honour Judge Walden is the resident judge (RJ) at Bermondsey Crown Court. This means that as well as conducting an unusually interesting variety of cases, he has to manage the court staff and facilities, and juggle the lists to ensure a fair distribution of work to his judicial colleagues –… Continue reading
Book review: Calling down the storm, by Peter Murphy
“Judge not, lest ye be judged” goes the Biblical saying. But what happens when the judge himself is under suspicion? This is the awful prospect facing a recently appointed High Court judge in Peter Murphy’s absorbing new courtroom thriller, Calling Down the Storm. Reviewed by Paul Magrath. In the pages of this novel, notorious historical… Continue reading
Book review: The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr by Peter Murphy
Paul Magrath reviews a mesmerising new courtroom thriller in which Peter Murphy’s ambitious barrister hero Ben Schroeder takes on a challenging case involving a Welsh nationalist bomb plot. All the details of barristerial life, the rules of ethics and evidence, and the courtroom procedure appropriate for the 1960s period setting are pitch perfect. Yet is… Continue reading
Chancery, chess and chicanery: “And is there Honey Still for Tea?” by Peter Murphy
Book review by Paul Magrath It is the mid-1960s and Ben Shroeder is a young barrister struggling to establish his career in the snobbish and prejudiced world of the English Bar. This is the third novel in a series which began with A Higher Duty, in which he served pupillage in the set of chambers… Continue reading