The Secret Barrister returns to debunk the biggest legal lies of our time. Taking you from your own home to the halls of Westminster, this is the truth about justice in an age of fake law.
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal
law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. The
Secret Barrister writes for many publications, including The Times,
the Guardian, New Statesman, iNews, Esquire and Counsel
magazine.
In 2016 and 2017, the Secret Barrister was named Independent
Blogger of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.
In 2018, the Secret Barrister was named Legal Personality of the
Year at the Law Society Awards.
Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How
It's Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and has been
in the top-ten bestseller list for more than a year. It won the
Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018, and was shortlisted for
Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of
the Year 2018.
Well written, both punchy and providing concise explanations of
complex laws . . . a powerful polemic that also acts as a primer
about our legal rights
*Sunday Times*
The Secret Barrister mounts a powerful defence of lawyers and the
law from their noisy detractors . . . this is an urgent and highly
readable book. You will come away from it feeling that your mind
has been purged
*The Times*
Fake Law is a compelling, eye-opening read and should act as a
wake-up call for anyone with an interest in how the law, and, by
extension, society and justice function – that is to say, every one
of us.
*Daily Express*
The authority of this author is in the sheer quality of the
writing. To keep up to this standard in tweet after tweet, blogpost
after blogpost, and now book after book is remarkable – especially
if, as the author tells us, they do all this in addition to a busy
and stressful criminal practice
*Prospect*
I enjoyed reading this book. It is well-written and informative and
the SB is right to lament the levels of public ignorance about the
way the system works.
*Daily Telegraph*
The Secret Barrister picks apart the “deliberate smokescreen” of
falsehoods with which the UK government justifies its policies and
the methods employed by a compliant press to amplify and embellish
them. Unashamedly polemical but legally watertight, Fake Law is a
disturbing indictment
*Herald*
This is not the easiest book you will read this summer. But it will
be one of the most educational and alarming
*Strong Words*
A defence of the legal system and exposé of agenda-driven
politicians, click-hungry tabloid editors and powerful corporate
interests who persuade us that the system is stacked in favour of
criminals and the undeserving. In fact, the resulting changes to
the law mean our own rights – for example, to legal aid – are being
quietly eroded
*Daily Mirror*
A much-needed book that looks at some of the biggest myths behind
the legal system. Fans of the Secret Barrister will be pleased with
the latest instalment, which offers well-written insight, making
difficult-to-understand laws clearer with interesting and current
case studies.
*Press Association*
The anonymous campaigning lawyer returns with a myth-busting new
book that takes on the many detractors of the law and legal
profession.
*The Times*
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