You Can't Marry Your Mother-in-Law; and other common legal misconceptions

To many - if not most of us - the law is a large, impenetrable and growing thicket, surrounded by near-folkloric misunderstandings about what lies within. In this collection of vignettes, barrister, journalist and family mediator Maureen Mullally takes her secateurs and cuts out a personal selection of some of the more topical misconceptions for witty scrutiny. From proposed new rights for pets to the bugging of wheelie bins, this book portrays how intrusive and absurd some of our laws have become.