Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

Another brilliant legal thriller book I read by the best selling author John Grisham is the Judge's List in 2022 January. The story begins when Lacy Stoltz meets a woman named Jeri whose father was murdered in 1992 and she claimed had learned the identity of the killer. Lacy is the interim director of the board on Judicial conduct and it is her duty to investigate complaints of misconduct filed against state court judges. Jeri filed a formal complaint and Lacy were required by state law to get involved. The killing took place twenty years ago in Lacy' s Jurisdiction. It is very clear to know when you read the initial chapters how a corrupt judge in the higher judiciary can destroy many lives. The characters in this book run a marathon to chase down the killer to the justice system. In the legal thriller, John Grisham's, Judge's list, the suspect is a sitting judge in Florida - Mr, Ross Bannick suspected of eight murders since 1991 all within driving distance from Pensac...

I enjoyed reading this book. Well researched and written brilliantly. The story takes place in Berlin 1938 at the Hitlers time. Georgie a Young Journalist/Reporter from London who works at the London news - the Chronicle newspaper travels to Berlin for work along with her colleague Max Spender. Georgie was the one to report on Germany's Political tableaux. Georgie truly loved the Chronicle. It was a people's paper, filled with mix of news, features and stories along with adverts.  Georgie was in berlin thinking to herself that she has plenty to learn and prove, also make a name for her with clutch of stories. Berlin in front of Georgie's eyes was astonishing, impressive, distinct, neat and imposing. When Miss Georgie Young found the city of berlin engaging, pristine and enticing ironically she and max witnessed the poor unfortunate in the street on her first days in the city. Georgie saw the sheared and degraded red-haired girl in the town square, persecuted only for loving...

FACTS OF THE CASE DONOGHUE V STEVENSON The case involved by May Donoghue also known as "Paisley snail" or "Snail in the bottle" case where Donoghue drank a bottle of ginger beer in a cafe she entered in Paisley, occupied by one Minchella is the most famous case in the common law. The ginger beer was bought by a friend who accompanied her at Minchella. Two slabs of ice cream each of which was placed in a tumbler and contents of a bottle of ginger beer were poured on it. The defender Stevenson was the manufacturer of the ginger beer and bought from him by Minchella. The ginger beer was contained in a bottle made of dark opaque glass. A decomposed snail floated out when the friend was pouring the remains in the contents of the bottle. As a result of the nauseating sight of the snail and the impurities in the ginger beer which Donoghue had already consumed, she had suffered from shock and severe Gastroenteritis. Normally, the consumer can claim for injuries resulting fr...

This book mentions that the Credit for coining the expression 'the rule of law' is usually given to Professor A.V Dicey,  the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, who used it in his book An introduction  to the study of the law of the constitution, p ublished 1885. In this book part 1, I came across what Tom Bingham has quoted Dicey's three meanings of definition for Rule of Law.  In the first place, he wrote 'that no man is punishable or can lawfully be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land. Dicey's thinking was clear. If anyone - you or I - is to be penalized it must not be breaking some rule dreamt up by an ingenious minister or official in order to convict us. It must be for a proven breach of the established law of the land. And it must be a breach established before the ordinary courts of the land, not a tribunal of members picked to do the gov...

Book review and my thoughts on "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers The book Redeeming love is all about powerful retelling the bible story of Hosea and Gomer and their marriage who lived in the eighth century B. C in the northern portion of Israel. The setting of the book "Redeeming Love" is in the 1850s Gold Rush in California, a historical romance novel by Francine Rivers. Angel's past years of her life haunted her continuously. My favorite quote in this book is "Everybody wants something. Nobody gives you anything without expecting something back". Michael Hosea took Angel out of a brothel. He fell in love with her for the first time he saw her and loved her unconditionally. Michael had seen Angel in a worse place than one could imagine and still, he took her back. Even after she deserted and betrayed him he fought for her. She could never understand him. She had thought men like him were weak, but Michael wasn't. Rivers describes Michael Hosea ...