LORD READING AND HIS CASES

The Study of a Great Career


Written by Derek Walker-Smith and published by The Macmillan Company, New York. Copyright 1934; the copyright and title page dates match. This is the first American edition.

This is a balanced and impartial estimate of the career of Lord Reading. It is also an account of the principal cases in which Lord Reading figured prominently as counsel or judge in what was perhaps the most interesting period of his brilliant career.


From Wikipedia:

Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading GCB GCSI GCIE GCVO PC KC (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935) was the Viceroy of India (1921–25), barrister, jurist and the last member of the official Liberal Party to serve as Foreign Secretary. He was the second practicing Jew to be a member of the British cabinet (the first being Herbert Samuel, who was also a member of the Asquith Government), the first Jew to be Lord Chief Justice of England, and the first British Jew to be raised to a marquessate.

Isaacs garnered fame in the Bayliss v. Coleridge libel suit in 1903, and the Whitaker Wright case in 1904. In 1904, he entered the House of Commons as Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the Reading constituency, a seat he held until 1913. During this period, he served as both Solicitor General and Attorney-General in the government of Herbert Henry Asquith, becoming the first Attorney-General to sit in the Cabinet in 1912. He led for the prosecution in the Seddon poisoning case in 1912 and that same year represented the Board of Trade at the inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 1913, he was made Lord Chief Justice, a position in which he served until 1921.

CONTENTS:

Rufus Isaacs the Man

Rufus Isaacs the Boy

Apprenticeship at the Bar: a Famous Turf Case

A Growing Practice: Allen v. Flood;

A "Political" Libel Action and a Boer War Prosecution

Annus Mirabilis: the Liverpool Bank Case

The Hartopp Divorce Case and Taff Vale

The Gordon Custody Case

Rise and Fall of Whittaker Wright

The Reading Bye-Election of 1904: in Parliament

The Defence of Sir Edward Russell

The Liberal Triumph of 1906

Rufus Isaacs and Carson: the “Gaiety Girl Divorce Case”

The Trades Disputes Bill; Rufus Isaacs and Carson: the "Gaity Girl Divorce Case"

The Acquittal of "Bob" Sievier

Commercial Magnates v. Press Lords

A Political Chapter: Solicitor-General

The Archer-Shee Controversy

Troubled Politics: Parliament Bill and Home Rule

Honour of the King

Rufus Isaacs and Marshall Hall: the Seddons' Trial

The Titanic Disaster

Suffragettes and Trade Unions

The Marconi "Scandal"

Wartime Lord Chief Justice

Treason and Death of Roger Casement

Conclusion and Estimate

Index

DESCRIPTION:

400 pages

9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

First printing, hardcover

CONDITION:

This hard-cover book is in good+ condition. There is no dustjacket. The purple cloth cover is clean and shows only light wear at the corners and spine ends. The spine is somewhat faded. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The endpapers or pastedowns are browning from (most likely) acidic paste used in the books construction. The paper is slightly toned with age. The hinges and binding are excellent with no loose or missing pages.

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