If an Englishman’s home is his castle, these days it may seem he no longer has the right to defend it.

In addition, The Secret Barrister has a delicious turn of phrase, and an absolutely wicked tongue which is truly pleasurable to read. I love the law, I have since I was 13 and first became entranced by the idea of pursuing it as a profession.

So, when people refer to the law as ‘not fit for purpose’ or more curtly that the ‘law is an ass’, they are often referring to a law to have perfidious intensions. Students learning the Bengali language have also valued the English/Bengali translations on every page. g.) such as those who wanted to kill the two 10 year old boys when they were found guilty of killing 2 year old James Berger in 1993.

Moral of the story, The Star, Daily Mirror and Daily Express should not be allowed to exist (110% behind this) and politicians fabricate everything regarding the law.

This Secret Barrister sequel offers a gripping, informative and sometimes alarming survey of how the media, government and various interest groups have promoted misleading legal narratives in recent years. I genuinely believe this book and TSB first ought to be required reading for law students from now on.

I’m now certain that ministers should have to be suitably qualified to be given certain jobs – such as being responsible for the Ministry of Justice (although SB also shows that being qualified in law doesn’t always make certain ministers competent). Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. In his or her sights are the misrepresentations and downright lies told every day by politicians, the press and Twitter trolls. Menciona varios incidentes de este tipo, en su mayoría originados en el Reino Unido, y su impacto en la política.Some of them were molested and raped without any prior knowledge that the man might do such things to them. This book has been lovingly crafted and is clearly no intended money-spinner; it is a labour of love, written with conviction. Absolutely fascinating, and along with a few other true crime books I have read lately (including one form a current forensic scientist) I am intrigued by the actualities of the justice system vs the theoretical.

An informed look at the myths we're forcefed about the operation of the law (it's biased in favour of criminals!So, he wasn’t convicted because the law is biased against homeowners, but because he failed to meet either of the vital criteria for self-defense. Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. Although increasingly heavy going, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the law – which, as TSB persuasively concludes in the epilogue, should be every single one of us! Indeed, by the end of certain chapters there are certain names the very mention of whom should draw your ire (looking at Chris Grayling in particular here). We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission.