And it challenges the widespread belief “that it will never be me”.” It in fact easily could be you, the Secret Barrister explains, or someone you love. The book continuously points out that the system’s failings come at a steep human cost in the form of miscarriages of justice. Tapping on stories from their own first-hand experiences in the criminal justice system, the Secret Barrister also makes a strong case for why its deterioration should concern everyone. The “wild west” of magistrates’ courts the remorseless processing of cases with no regards to the quality of justice the widespread failures by police and prosecutors to disclose key evidence the “perverse” legal aid incentives which discourage proactive, quality defence lawyering – the Secret Barrister blows the whistle on all these failings and more. Written by a practising criminal law barrister it paints a devastating picture of an institution that appears to be on the verge of collapse.
Systemic errors, combined with chronic underfunding, mean that oftentimes the guilty go free and the innocent are jailed. The Secret Barrister addresses the calamitous state of the English legal system, which seems to be failing on many fronts. The Secret Barrister – Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, by The Secret Barrister.
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