23 Nov
New law book "The Tort of Conversion" by Sarah Green and John Randall QC published.
For the past 21 months John Randall QC has been intermittently engaged in writing a new law book, jointly with an academic at Birmingham University, Sarah Green. This book is the first comprehensive appraisal of the tort of Conversion, and analyses it from the viewpoints of both the academic and the practical legal world. It has been published by Hart Publishing (Oxford). There is a Foreword by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury. For the Foreword and Table of Contents, and to order, please visit Hartpub.co.uk
"It became obvious to both of us that this was a book which needed to be written. In our respective realms of legal academe and practice, the absence of anyextended analysis of the tort of Conversion was both notable and remarkable. It has been a highly rewarding subject to research and to analyse, and one which wehope will appeal more to others as a result of our efforts to present it as a useful and important action. The challenge, as we saw it, was to produce a book whichwould on the one hand inform and interest legal academics yet, on the other hand, provide a user-friendly, practical resource for busy practitioners. Though maintaining the balance between a scholarly work and a practitioner text has attimes proved delicate, in our view we have managed to achieve our desired result. Along the way, this exercise has operated as a powerful practical demonstration of a point which many might acknowledge as a matter of theory, but is far too seldom put into practice: each of the two worlds can benefit enormously from the wisdom and experience of the other."
From the preface by Sarah Green & John Randall QC.
"To write a book which will be of as much interest and help to practical lawyers and judges as to academic lawyers and students is a real achievement... Sarah Green, with her distinguished academic experience, and John Randall, with his justifiably formidable reputation at the Bar, have produced a book which reflects the strengths of both the academic legal world and the practical legal world, while avoiding the weaknesses of either. All lawyers, and their clients and students, have much to thank them for."
From the foreword by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR.
Sarah Green, MA, Msc (Oxon) is lecturer in law at the University of Birmingham.
John Randall MA (Cantab), QC is a Barrister at St Philips Chambers, Birmingham, principally practising in chancery and commercial law. He is a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and sits as a Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
