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his collection of vignettes, despite their preeminently legal context, are shorn of undue legalism and reflect pragmatic solutions to everyday legal issues encountered. The outcome is one of sensitizing and empowering the affected individual concerned and indeed the general readership of Omar H. Khan’s long subscribed column in terms of resolving underlying issues in a conciliatory rather than in an adversarial manner. This, in my view, has the salutary effect of deterring vexatious and frivolous litigation.
The intrinsic worth of this book, further, is that it serves as a commentary on ever evolving trends, mores and ideas legal, attitudinal and social that will be of interest to lawyers, social scientists and laymen alike.
