- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Matador (7 Dec 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848761732
- ISBN-13: 978-1848761735
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 521,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wig Begone is an exhilarating tale of Charles' early career with disaster often lurking round the corner and culminating in his own appearance in front of England's most notorious judge!
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Wig Begone is a novel about the ups and downs of a fledgling barrister's life based on the author's extensive experience of the Criminal Bar. Anecdotal in part, I believe that it would appeal to law students across the range, but the book is also very much a good yarn in its own right.I hope that general readers too will feel empathy for Charles as he confronts the problems which face him as he sallies forth into the legal world...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it to be such a great insight into the daily business of our law courts.
It made me laugh out loud when Charles describes various criminal characters he met in London all those years ago and got himself into all sorts of scrapes.
Charles manages to capture the feeling of pure fear that must have been felt when a young barrister starts his career.
He leaves the reader in no doubt about how difficult it is to judge a case and describes in some detail each location so that you can visualize each court room.
An excellent and educational read!
It made me laugh out loud when Charles describes various criminal characters he met in London all those years ago and got himself into all sorts of scrapes.
Charles manages to capture the feeling of pure fear that must have been felt when a young barrister starts his career.
He leaves the reader in no doubt about how difficult it is to judge a case and describes in some detail each location so that you can visualize each court room.
An excellent and educational read!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I heartily recommend this book. It follows the early career of a junior barrister some thirty-five years as he makes his first steps at the English bar. In doing so he comes across not only a huge range of clients and fellow barristers but also the odd (right word) difficult judge. We follow his victories and pieces of good fortune and the difficulties and injustices which can be caused simply by being so junior that you're still tip-toeing around the profession. It's a great read and follows in the footsteps of the likes of John Mortimer's Rumpole seires and Henry Cecil's Brothers in Law series (the first of which is incidentally my favourite book about the English bar).
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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