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Please note that nothing on this site constitutes legal advice, and should not be relied upon as such. 

 
James Wilson 

 

Welcome to my website, which has been set up to provide information on my books and other writing.  I hope you find something of interest.

 

By way of background, I trained as a lawyer and practised for a while in both New Zealand and England before wandering into various other vocations.  In the course of doing so I started writing as an interesting sideline, moving from blogs and tweets to articles and full-length books.  I still have a day job, which is wholly separate: for any work query, see my Linkedin profile.  For more biographical details, see the About me page. 

 

I have covered a wide range of subjects, including cricket, history and law. I always try and find stories with an interesting human angle, or moral dilemma, or both. 

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I have written five books and jointly edited another.  My most recent book is Lord Denning: Life, Law and Legacy. It reassesses the life and legacy of the most famous judge in English history. 

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My second book, Court & Bowled: Tales of Cricket and the Law, was chosen by Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice, as his recommendation for The Times newspaper in 2014.  It was also longlisted for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year 2015 and reviewed in Wisden Cricketers Almanack.  A revised edition was published in paperback in July 2017.  

 

You can purchase any of my books by clicking on the images at the top of the page, or for more detail on each click on the menu bar above. You can see some of my other writings  on the tab above or the news updates on this page. 

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I am on twitter as @alawyerwrites. For some years I wrote a blog called A(nother) Lawyer Writes, though nowadays I publish all new material on this site. 

 

News

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2024

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February 

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  • I have written another book review for the Law Society Gazette, on free speech, here

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January

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  • I have written another book review for the Law Society Gazette, on future war crimes,

       

        here

 

  • I have written another book review for the Law Society Gazette, on historic war crimes,

       

        here

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2023

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October

 

  • I have written a short book review for the Law Society Gazette, on a new book on AI

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       and Human Rights here

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September

 

  • My biography of Lord Denning has been reviewed in the Scottish Legal News here. 

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August

 

  • My biography of Lord Denning has been reviewed by Dr Charles Wynn-Evans in the New 

        Law Journal here. 

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  • Some correspondence in response to the review by the Hon Michael Beloff KC   

        has been published in the Times Literary Supplementhere.

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July

 

  • My biography of Lord Denning has been reviewed by the Hon Michael Beloff KC in the

        Times Literary Supplement here. â€‹  

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June 

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  • My biography of Lord Denning has been reviewed in the Law Society Gazette here. â€‹  

 

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March 

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  • My biography of Lord Denning is now available from the publisher here or from 

       Amazon here. â€‹  

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February

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I have been quoted in the Telegraph here on cricket and neighbours. 

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January  

  • My biography of Lord Denning can now be pre-ordered from the publisher here.

        It is currently at the printer and due in store on 24 March.​  

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