Stephen Michael Waddams
Autore di The law of contracts
Sull'Autore
Opere di Stephen Michael Waddams
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Waddams, Stephen Michael
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- English by birth
Naturalized Canadian
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Utenti
- 118
- Popolarità
- #167,490
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 44
Lushington's career spans cause célebre trials such as the trial in Parliament of George IV's wife ("Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore/To go away and sin no more/Or if that effort be too great/To go away at any rate") and the earlier Ritualism trials. Aside from the coverage given by Dickens to the Court of Arches in David Copperfield it is seriously neglected, partly because most historians and modern lawyers are ill-equipped to deal with this last of the civilian courts in England. Waddams' book is a welcome treatment of its latter days.
I should note that my sense of the book is coloured by having discussed the topic with the author while it was being written.… (altro)