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‘The Media Contracts Handbook’ (with Deborah Fosbrook), 3rd Edition (2005), Sweet & Maxwell - ‘A triumph … superb breath of coverage.’ Mark LeFanu, General Secretary of the Society of Authors.

 

‘The A — Z of Contract Clauses’ (with Deborah Fosbrook), 4th Edition (2007), Sweet & Maxwell  – ‘A work of great simplicity – a classic reference’.  R K Mehra, Managing Director, Rupa & Co, India.

 

‘R D Laing: A Life’ (Sutton Publishing)  – ‘ … grippingly exposes and illuminates the most remarkable and controversial figure of post-war psychiatry’ Professor Anthony Clare.

 

Articles, Features, Interviews:

 

 ‘Pan Mac adds to e-book momentum’ The Bookseller, London Book Fair Daily, 15th April 2008

 

‘The Cult of the Celebrity’, Publishing News, London Book Fair Daily, 16 April 2007

 

‘The Politics of Confidentiality’, The Bookseller, London Book Fair Preview, March 2007

 

‘Prevention - not cure’, Publishing News, 15  September 2006

 

‘Copyright in the Age of Mass Digitisation’, feature Opinion, Entertainment Law Review, Volume 17,  Issue 5, June 2006

 

‘Theme of London Book Fair Is What Technology Can Do’, New York Times,

7 March 2006

 

‘Carry on Publishing’, The Bookseller, 7 March 2006 (LBF)

 

‘Authors warned of digitisation threat’, Technology News, 6 March 2006

 

‘Fair turns pages toward the future’, International Herald Tribune’, 6 March 2006

 

‘Lawyer tells London Book Fair attendees not to sign Amazon,

Google Digitisation Contracts’, ZDNet Australia, 6 March 2006

 

‘Copyright in the Digital Age’, Publishing News, 5 March 2006 (LBF)

 

‘Life After r.r.p.’, leading article, The Bookseller Magazine, 14  May 2004.

 

‘Residents win first round of homes battle’, News Feature in the Hampstead and Highgate Express 30 December 2004.

 

‘Sins of the Father’ feature article by Wendy Leigh, Daily Mail (Weekend Magazine)

Daily Mail, March 2000

 

‘Brand Management’ feature in The In-House Lawyer, February 1998

 

‘Played by the Book’ feature in Legal Business, November 1995

 

‘Lessons from the Past’, leading letter, The Financial Times, September 1995

 

‘Is UK Broadcasting Abreast of Technology?’ (with Brian Eagles), The Business of Film, October 1994.

 

‘Get Your Act Together on TV Appeal’ leading letter, Broadcast Magazine, August 1994.

 

‘Sassenach’s view of Glasgow’, letters, The Herald, August 1994.

 

‘Contracting Out’ (with Jeremy Dickerson), Broadcast Magazine, July 1994.

 

‘Product Placement’, featured in the Yorkshire Post, January 1994.

 

‘Cable Signals new Era in Broadcasting’, Hammond Suddards Business Brief, Summer 1993.

 

‘A Juicy Point to Ponder’ letters, Broadcast Magazine, November 1993.

 

‘Ripe for a Fair Deal’, Broadcast Magazine, October 1993.

 

‘Dial-a-Star’, featured in Practice Marketing International, July 1993.

 

‘The Myth of the Moratorium’, Solicitors’ Journal, May 1993.

 

‘Powers of the ITC’, Broadcast Magazine, April 1993.

 

‘The Broadcasting Business’, front-page article, Solicitors’ Journal, May 1990.

 

‘Televising the Courts In England and Wales’, leading Opinion, International Media Law, June 1989.

 

Criminal Law Review: R. v. Paul Deacon, June 1987; R. v. Flack, March 1985; R. v. Storrow and Poole, May 1983.

 

 

 

Laing & Co, London, July 2008