The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law. They write for many publications and are the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and spent more than a year in the top-ten bestseller list. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies and Nothing But the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer were instant Sunday Times top-ten bestsellers on publication. Writing as S. J. Fleet, The Cut Throat Trial is their first novel.
Introduction
i: Introduction: My Opening Speech Chapter
1: Welcome to the Criminal Courtroom Chapter
2: The Wild West: The Magistrates' Court Chapter
3: Imprisoning the Innocent: Remand and Bail Chapter
4: Watching the Guilty Walk Free: Prosecuting on the Cheap Chapter
5: The Devil's Greatest Trick: Putting the Victim First Chapter
6: Defenceless and Indefensible Chapter
7: Legal Aid Myths and the Innocence Tax Chapter
8: Trial on Trial: Part I
The Case Against Chapter
9: Trial on Trial: Part II
The Case for the Defence Chapter
10: The Big Sentencing Con Chapter
11: The Courage of Our Convictions: Appeal Chapter
12: My Closing Speech