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The Sunday Times number one bestseller.
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

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.

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.

A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks.
‘Eye-opening, funny and horrifying’ – Observer
‘Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it’ – Daily Mail

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Anglais
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Picador
Date de publication

22 mars 2018
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The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law. The Secret Barrister writes for Solicitors Journal, New Statesman, and INews and has written pieces in the Sun, Mirror, and Huffington Post. In 2016 and 2017, the Secret Barrister was named Independent Blogger of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition paperback.

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By turns eye-opening, damning and hilarious, the secret barrister lifts the lid on a legal system where the system, the politicians, the lack of funding and sometimes the judges are the real villains and the victims are all of us -- Tim Shipman, author of Fall Out and All Out War Dishes the dirt or serves up a slice of reality on what barristers do, The Times The Secret Barrister can write...everyone who has any interest in public life should read it...this is a book of some brilliance, clearly explained, cogently argued, Daily Mail What s so powerful about The Secret Barrister is its ability to connect the dots...revealing a picture that is more a commentary on society as a whole than it is on robing rooms full of horsehair wigs -- Afua Hirsch, Guardian Takes the reader deep into the bowels of the criminal justice system...the message of this entertaining book is delivered with great skill...the book is at once a lament and a celebration...the justice system as not just for criminals and victims but for all of us - it is the symbol of our nation's humanity, The Times Funny, frightening, frequently infuriating but above all profoundly human. As a sensitive and knowledgeable storyteller, the Secret Barrister does for lawyers what James Herriot did for vets --a

Funny, angry, mordant, social satire, reform manifesto The Secret Barrister offers them all in this legal tour de force. Told through often heart-rending stories of victims and victors in a game of legal roulette, a quest for decency and proper standards of legal service shines through the bleakness. If the Secret Barrister has her or his way, it might happen a bit more often. Read this book, hope and pray --Andrew Adonis

Its stories of how the law often fails those whom it is meant to protect how do barristers feel when someone they believe to be innocent gets banged up for five years? make for gripping reading. --John Crace, The Guardian --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition kindle_edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0753GBC5Z
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Mrs. Mary J. L. Kennedy

All Rise

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 6 mai 2018

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I am not a lawyer. But my husband is, a company law barrister. He has never done any criminal work. We have lots of friends in all branches of the law though, and I am used to being surrounded by legal news and chat. So I thought I had a pretty fair idea of how the criminal law system in England and Wales works in reality rather than simply in theory. I was wrong. Having read this book I am a wiser, and much sadder, woman.

It seems that now, if you look behind the very thin surface veneer of any public service in the UK you find the same things - chaos and Not Enough To Go Round. Why? It is one of the richest countries in the world, and the expectations and sense of entitlements of its citizens cannot exceed the ability of the state to deliver them to the extent that they appear to.

We need more books like this. We need them to be thrust not only into the hands of all politicians, but of teachers too, of all influencers. It's time to get angry!

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Navajo

Stunning exposé

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 30 avril 2018

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As a non-legal bod I found this brilliantly written exposé of the crisis in UK criminal justice totally compelling. The author develops a conversational style which means an easier read in some of the drier sections, however there aren't many of those. Every single person in this country should care about how our criminal justice system works, or as is currently the case, just doesn't. The chapter on wrongful convictions and how this government has passed legislation which has effectively ensured that receiving state compensation for wrongful conviction is well nigh impossible, shocked me to the core. Perhaps the fall out from the Windrush scandal allied to the spate of non-disclosure dropped cases will empower those within the system to group together and get a few worthy journalists involved to create an unstoppable momentum for change, for that is what is needed. A fantastic book.

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George Rosenberg

Indictment of the collapse of the British criminal law system.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 10 mai 2018

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This is a shocking book and a must read. A lot of the criticism arises from the deliberate policies of the most recent two governments to undermine the system by starving it of resources and killing off legal aid, but the problem goes back a long way and this is not ignored. It includes an excellent history of the English criminal law system, much of which was news to me. The vast bulk of trials are conducted by untrained amateurs in the Magistrates Courts. It may be cheap but it is not cheerful. I suspect it was even worse in the past but was cheerfully overlooked as those with political power and clout were rarely negatively affected by it. I would have thought that most of the criticism clearly explained here would offend people from across the political spectrum, but it seems that this is not the case. There is a huge anti-justice lobby, recently concentrated in the Conservative and Liberal parties. Despite the trenchant criticism - intended not only to expose the faults of the system but also to ram home how important it is to society as a whole, I'm not optimistic that anything will change. If it does change this book will have been one of the catalysts.

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J. Baldwin

An impassioned tirade

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 13 août 2018

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The author here is a practising barrister who hits many bulls-eyes in his/her impassioned tirade about the many deficiencies of the criminal justice system in this country. S/he identifies a depressing litany of extremely disturbing problems that have served to undermine the search for justice. Many of these are the direct result of the iniquitous austerity policies of government.

The Secret Barrister is packed with information and detail and a forceful argument is sustained throughout the book. If this leads to a good deal of ranting, it is because the author feels genuine anger and passion about the problems. I must confess, however, that I was put off by the author's forced humour and his/her fondness for flippant colloquialisms. S/he also seems unable to decide whether the book is intended as a serious contribution to the criminal justice literature, a taster for first year law students or a pot boiler for popular consumption. Though somewhat idiosyncratic, The Secret Barrister is nonetheless firmly based on the author's own experience of working in the criminal courts and on his/her knowledge of the academic writing and research on the subject.

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youonlyliveoce

Hard work and some questionable assumptions

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 17 mars 2019

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Clumsy writing and very hard to read. Some bits were contradictory (e.g. the relative lack of impact of family law to the potential restrictions on family life imposed by criminal law. Surely the loss of access to one’s children through the family courts is no less than that arising from a parents’s imprisonment? His argument that as a nation we are making the transition from a ‘criminal justice system’ to a ‘criminal system’ would benefit from further justification; is the system we have now better or worse than the days in which one could be transported to Australia for relatively low level crimes? I found the book patronising and assumed an unjustifiable ignorance of the criminal justice system, and gave up before the end of the first chapter. Maybe my review is unfair, but flicking through the remaining pages suggests not.

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