The secret barrister : stories of the law and how it's broken

By:

Secret Barrister

Publication details: London : Picador, 2019Description: 374pISBN:

9781509841141

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

ZZ 3.

Summary: You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or – perhaps through no fault of your own – a defendant. Whatever your role, you’d expect a fair trial. I’m a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free. I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it’s too late.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	People & planet	ZZ 3 SEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023308

You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or – perhaps through no fault of your own – a defendant. Whatever your role, you’d expect a fair trial.

I’m a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free.

I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it’s too late.

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