Thom regularly writes articles for publication on various issues of legal interest. He has been published in The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and Prospect, as well as in specialist law journals like Judicial Review, Public Law and the Solicitors Journal.
Thom regularly writes articles for publication on various issues of legal interest. He has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Private Eye, New Statesman and Prospect, as well as in specialist law journals like Judicial Review, Public Law and the Solicitors Journal, and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about legal issues.
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It’s a trite complaint of most advocacy textbooks that the “art of oral persuasion” is one that cannot be acquired purely through reading books. Though there is undoubtedly some truth in that statement, those students looking to make a living from the spoken word are well advised to keep an amply stocked bookshelf (This article first appeared in The Times on 20 October 2011).
Read MoreThese memoirs benefit from a career spent at the heart of some of the most controversial criminal cases of the past four decades, including those of Barry George, the Birmingham Six, the "Ricin" trial and the posthumous appeal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK (This review first appeared in the New Statesman on 24 September 2009).
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