The Best of "Queens Counsel" Hardcover – 1 Nov 1999
by Steuart (Author), Francis (Author)
The very best of Steuart and Francis’s Queen’s Counsel. Everything you wanted to know about the law but didn’t want to pay £300 an hour to find out!
Lawyers affect the lives of us all, whether through buying a house, getting a divorce, making a will – or being forced to sit next to one at a dinner party. This book is for everyone who wants to get their own back.
Queen’s Counsel is the successful strip cartoon which appears every Tuesday in the law pages of The Times. Its good-natured satire on lawyers and the legal system has made it compulsory reading among members of the legal profession.
Review
‘A hilariously accurate canard on m’learned friends. The perfect gift for the legal eagle in your life’
The Independent on Sunday
‘A very likeable companion… the ideal book for the smallest room in the house.’
In Brief Monthly
From the Back Cover
Lawyers affect the lives of us all, whether through buying a house, getting a divorce, making a will -- or being forced to sit next to one at a dinner party. This book is for everyone who wants to get their own back.
'Queen’s Counsel' is the successful strip cartoon which appears every Tuesday in the law pages of 'The Times'. Its good-natured satire on lawyers and the legal system has made it compulsory reading among members of the legal profession.
'The Best of Queen’s Counsel'brings together the funniest and most popular moments of Steuart and Francis’s continuing saga of life among the tennants of 4 Lawn Buildings: head of chambers Sir Geoffrey Bentwood; aspiring head of chambers Edward Longwind; idealistic, downtrodden pupil barrister Helena; and solicitor Richard Loophole.
Biography
Alex Steuart Williams is a cartoonist, film animator, writer and former barrister.
Over the past 25 years Alex has worked on around twenty five feature films, including "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", "The Lion King", "The Iron Giant", and the last three "Harry Potter" movies.
He also writes and draws the cartoon strip "Queen's Counsel" in The (London) Times, and has published many collections of the cartoons. He also runs an online animation school at www.animationapprentice.org
You can see Queen's Counsel cartoons at www.qccartoon.com, where you can also buy original drawings and prints.
Alex's most recent book is the Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus - the very best cartoons over the last two decades, celebrating 20 years in The Times.
Product details
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Times Books (1 Nov 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0723010714
ISBN-13: 978-0723010715
Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.8 x 1.2 cm
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (
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