the secret barrister by the secret barrister

From the criminals to the lawyers, the victims, witnesses, and more, the Secret Barrister reveals the best and worst of humanity and how the broken system affects all who enter it. In The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken 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.Ī Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks. Well, the Secret Barrister aims to show you what it’s really like inside the criminal justice system and why it matters. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Whatever your role, you’d expect a fair trial. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or – perhaps through no fault of your own – a defendant. You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. 16 September 2022 The truth about our human rights laws, by the Secret Barrister Few cases raise more hackles than foreign nationals breaching our criminal law, only for the government’s attempts at deporting them to be frustrated. Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.

An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system – and explains how it's failing all of us.

The secret barrister by the secret barrister