11 Oak Street edition by Graham Cook Professional Technical eBooks
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The true story of the abduction of a three-year-old child from Bristol, England to San Francisco, California and its appalling consequences.
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11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen’s bankers, Coutts & Co., sent two cashier’s cheques to a law firm in San Francisco with the wrong address on the envelope (11 Oak Street instead of 1111 Oak Street), setting off a chain of events that led to the abduction of a three-year-old child from Bristol, England, to San Francisco, California. It is a horrifying story of greed, ineptness, corruption, stupidity and wasted years as the father tries to seek justice and access to his son in the midst of a thirteen-year nightmare that even Kafka could not have thought up. If you want to read about the seven California lawyers involved in this story who either went to jail, were disbarred, or resigned with charges pending, and inept judges who broke all the rules or were disciplined, this is the book for you. This is a story that would never have happened if those concerned had fulfilled their duties correctly and not broken the law. If Graham Cook, the author, had known then what he knows now, there would have been no story and he would not have gone bankrupt, become homeless or, through the actions of his own brother, ended up in a California jail. This is the book the California Judges Association refused to let the author promote to its members lest it offend some of them, which of course it will do as the book exposes endemic corruption or wrong doing by some of its past and present members.
11 Oak Street edition by Graham Cook Professional Technical eBooks
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11 Oak Street edition by Graham Cook Professional Technical eBooks Reviews
This is an intriguing book which should be read by every law student, by every Family Law attorney (especially in California), and it would also be an interesting case study for any Marriage and Family counselor.
The author has provided an alarming portrayal of the legal morass in which he found himself after love went wrong, and his lawyer apparently never went right.
One thing is certain --- whatever myriad factors led to the author’s disturbing legal predicament --- the book leaves one with an edgy feeling of unease about the sometimes extraordinarily roiling confluence of love and law.
Perhaps the moral of the woeful story is to chose one’s long term lover for his or her character, and chose one’s short term lawyer for the same.
Cupid is blind for one reason; Justice for another, and the Cyclops for yet another.
This book illustrates very well why it is important to understand the difference.
This book is an unnerving account of how a man could be let down by the judicary system, a system established to help people find justice. The author, Graham Cook, has his three year old son abducted by the boy's mother and taken from England to America. The book is an account of Graham`s fight, through the judicial system, to have access to his son.
It should have been a straight forward case of child custody but the greedy lawers and corrupt judicary in that county of Napa, California combined to turn the case into a nightmare for Graham and a money tree for the lawers. During the 13 years that this case dragged on it seems that the needs of the child were ignored by all except the father.
Once one starts reading the book it is difficult to put aside as the reader hopes for the good news to start. Before you know it you are at the last page and you close the book with a sense of sadness and a feeling of distrust in the legal system in the USA.
I found the book very readable but it reads a little like a report and perhaps could have done with some character embellishments, hence the 4 star rating.
From the first chapter, you get the sense of this man from his humble beginnings to his hard work and climb upwards in social and wealth status. It's hard to believe that such a man would fall prey to a vicious and vindictive woman, the mother of his son. The journey doesn't stop there though. Page by page you live this journey with the writer, moving from the United Kingdom to California, and the losses he incurred. This book gives not only gives you a detailed account of this man's life story of triumphs and downfalls, but it also gives the reader a thorough account of his experience of the corrupt legal system as it pertains to California law. Justice clearly was not served in Graham Cook's case. This is a must read, page turning, compelling story, filled with sadness and astonishing truths. I would recommend this book to anyone. If this were fiction, you would not believe what went on was even possible. Eye-opening and outstanding.
This book is a stunning indictment of a corrupt and vindictive legal system, which is not set in a failed State, or in a corrupt totalitarian regime, or in some particularly troublesome period of history, it is set in the `legal' system of the State of California and its judicially semi-autonomous counties. I am not Californian, or even American, so feel free to read my supporting criticism with that in mind. Graham Cook isn't a `native' of that area either, which undoubtedly coloured some of the judgements against him.
The facts in this book are just that, facts. Critics may assume that some things are left out in order to so weigh the book's balance in the author's favour. This thought naturally crossed my mind, but the book covers such blatant miscarriages of justice that any sane person would struggle to do anything but side fully with Graham Cook.
This autobiographical account is stunning. That he persisted in fighting through the courts for so long, despite a deep well of corruption hidden in the system, even whilst struggling against many of those, then or previously, close to him, is nothing short of flabbergasting. This was all to achieve what exactly? To find out you will have to read the book.
Graham Cook clearly states that neither he nor his supporters did everything right every time, but gads, if he wasn't royally screwed by the system then who has ever been. Courts are rightly inclined towards prejudice in favour of the mother in cases of disputed custody. As a general rule, I think this is no bad thing. As a husband and a father I feel I'm more than within my rights to say so. However, courts need to be fair and open to ruling in a father's favour whenever there is any doubt as to the mother's capability or behaviour. We all hear thousands of stories reflecting this sort of issue. However, this book is far more than just one more example in that unfortunate flood. This isn't about simple biases that exist in any legal system; this is about corruption within, and the illegal manipulation of, the judiciary. This is about corruption, prejudice and outright theft by individuals that society needed, or still needs, to trust.
This is a very well written account of a family `train-crash' caused by systemic failures and a lack of impartial oversight. Every adult that cares a fig about family issues, about natural justice or about the dangers inherent in poorly regulated legal entities, should read this. But above all, this book needs to be read by those that hold public office in the, in so many ways great, State of California.
The author is known to me.
11 Oak Street is a remarkable story of a man's determination and perseverance in trying to save and establish his relationship with his son. The book is very well documented and I found it chilling to read of the betrayal he experienced from people he should have been able to trust. The fact that he kept moving forward after so many obstacles is amazing.
I AM STILL IN THE PROCESS OF READING IT. I KNOW THE MAN WHO WROTE THE BOOK, SO INTERESTED IN SEEING WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
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