Newspaper notice of publication
Escape from the
Shades: Bishop's Stortford retired solicitor Anthony Edwards turns his criminal
advocacy skills to writing a book for his five grandchildren
By Sinead Corr
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Published: 13:10, 01 February 2023
| Updated: 19:45, 02 February 2023
A
former criminal solicitor who lives in Bishop's Stortford drew on his five
decades of legal experience to write a new book for children.
Anthony
Edwards, 73, has dedicated Escape From The Shades to his five
grandchildren.
They
range in age from two to 11, but nine- to 12-year-olds are his target audience
for the tale of East End orphans growing up in Victorian London and how they
were helped by philanthropist Thomas John Barnardo, who in 1867 founded the
first Barnardo's home for poor and deprived children.
Anthony
has lived in Stortford since 1975. He was born in London and educated in
Middlesex and Wiltshire before reading law at Bristol University.
He began his professional training in 1972 in his family's law firm in
Whitechapel, qualified in 1974 and spent his entire career there, specialising
in criminal law and licensing.
He said: "I licensed the whole of Canary Wharf in a single
application!"
His roles included 10 years on the Law Society's criminal law committee,
seven years as the non-executive commissioner responsible for the Criminal
Defence Service and membership of the Sentencing Guidelines Council throughout
its existence.
He practised in magistrates', Crown and appeal courts, mainly taking on
legal aid cases as a police station and court duty solicitor.
During his career, he wrote a bookshelf full of criminal law handbooks
and guides, including the Law Society's Good Practice Guide - Criminal
Defence. His last legal volume will be published in March.
He turned to his first fiction book during the Covid-19 lockdown. He
said: "I've self-published short stories as a Christmas present for the
grandchildren. This is the first fuller-length story.
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