A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks.Victoria Ashton has intelligence and ambition qualities of little value to most marriage minded gentlemen of the ton. 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. 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. Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award. 'Eye-opening, funny and horrifying' - Observer 'Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it' - Daily MailĪn anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system - and explains how it's failing all of us. A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks.
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.
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