Nothing But The Truth charts an outsider’s progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. In hilarious and tragic stories from the criminal courts, it lifts the lid on what it’s really like to pursue a career at the Bar, and reveals the uncomfortable and surprising truth about life in our opaque criminal justice system. This tell-all memoir is the third book from the Secret Barrister. How might prosecuting society’s most dangerous criminals change a person’s beliefs about justice?

How does it feel to successfully defend a person who is freed and then kills? Both a searing first-hand account of the human cost of the criminal justice system, and a guide to how we got into this mess, The Secret Barrister wants to show you what it’s really like and why it really matters.What compels someone to become a barrister? How can you defend a child-abuser you suspect to be guilty? What do you say to someone sentenced to 10 years who you believe to be innocent? What is the law and why do we need it? And why do they wear those stupid wigs? From the criminals to the lawyers, the victims, witnesses, and officers of the law, here is the best and worst of humanity, all struggling within a broken system which would never be off the front pages if the public knew what it was really like. They are sometimes funny, often moving, and ultimately life-changing.

These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. Publishers Description: 'I’m a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, named driver, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, coffee-supplier, surrogate parent and, on one memorable occasion, whatever the official term is for someone tasked with breaking the news to a prisoner that his girlfriend has been diagnosed with gonorrhoea.” Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

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