Learn the Law

About the Book

An unprecedented, simple, expansive and amusing introduction to law. For everyone everywhere. The only book able to make you laugh while you "Learn the law".

About the Author

'NOTABLE.'
'N.O.T.ABLE' '
N. (No) O. (Ordinary) T. (Teacher) - being (most) ABLE.

Call him what you like, one of the England's most renowned judges, Lord Denning, liked his writings.

'Notable' was born in 1954 in Kingston, Jamaica. He attended St. George's College, a Catholic institution, until age sixteen. His parents then sent him to England for further education. He read politics and economics at London University. After graduating he was offered a place to study international relations, but opted against that course of study. He studied law, and was called to the British Bar. For over 20 years he has practised law, and maintained a keen interest in world affairs.

The essays in this book span the more than 20 years of the author's professional life. In 'Notable's' book law is approached from many angles. The essays are grouped in related chapters. The opening sections of the book have a leitmotif of history and structural location of the law as it functions around the world. As the book progresses, humour prods scholarship, assisted by interpretative commentaries on legal topics.

When the great English Judge, Lord Denning, complimented 'Notable' on his original writings, a genuinely high compliment was paid by one of England's most brilliant judges of the twentieth century.

The tongue in cheek humour and cheeky exchange of letters with Lord Hailsham ( former Lord Chancellor of England), reveals the author's intense intellectual irreverence as hallmark of his atypical and unique style.

Instructive, insightful, humorous, yet cleverly simplistic, is the approach which makes 'Learn the law' a novel treat. Lawyers, law students, college students, and a general interested readership willing to learn about and laugh at the law and its idiosyncrasies will appreciate this book.

It is the kind of book a nephew or niece about to enter law school would greatly appreciate receiving from his or her favorite Aunt. It is also the kind of light-hearted read that will inveigle the old Aunt into believing the nephew or niece is actually entering one of the world's noble professions.

Everyone is invited to learn and laugh, as knowledge, information and amusement are interwoven into the legal fabric which is the book's subject matter.

This is the first collection to be published in a Trafford edition, 2003.