The Woman Who Tickled Too Much: And other incredible stories from inside Britain's Law Courts

by Jonathan Herring

Probably wisely, people don’t tend to turn to lawyers when they fall in love or before they have sex. But relationships are notoriously complex and when things start to go wrong and get messy it’s not long before the lawyers are on the scene.

Through fifteen of the most compelling, humorous and sometimes bizarre real-life cases ever to make it before a judge, you’ll experience first-hand some of the real and very difficult decisions our courts have to reach and find out how they go about unpicking the mess we manage to make in our lives.

Genres: Law

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2009

Reviews

[Linda Fallows · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book that will make you stop and think. Is the judicial system always right? Are judgements always in the interests of the party’s concerned? Taken situation by situation,this is a little book with a lot to convey.

[Marc Maitland]

A collection of amusing tales of legal proceedings, predominantly from the Family Division of the High Court. They range from the comic situations of the transvestite man (or was it woman?) who married a woman and duped her into believing the prosthetic penis he (she) used was simply to disguise the embarrassingly smal...l member with which he (she) had been endowed, to the sensitive questions arising out of mix-ups at the fertility clinic and the increasingly relevant question of what happens to the elderly when questions of local authority "care" arises.



Although the author is a lawyer (Oxford), a few errors in judicial nomenclature have crept in, e.g. "Dame Butler-Sloss" for "Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss" and the use of the Americanism "Justice So-and-so" instead of "Mr. Justice So-and-so", but these are relatively minor criticisms, of interest only to the pedant like myself. I would, however, have liked legal references to the cases quoted, since some further research on one or two of the cases referred to would have interested me and, I am sure, many others.



I do recommend this easy-to-read collection of true legal tales, both to the lawyer and layman. The book is also beautifully presented, with lovely drawings and excellent quality paper and binding.

[Anton Roe · Rating 3 out of 5]

a really interesting and thought provoking book about the british legal system