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Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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An anonymous barrister's darkly comic and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system, and how it's failing us all.
The Sunday Times number one bestseller.
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or – perhaps through no fault of your own – a defendant. Whatever your role, you’d expect a fair trial.
I’m a barrister. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free.
In The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it’s too late.
A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior, advocate, and winner, Gloria Allred is all of these things and more. Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes", Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights across boundaries of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and social class.
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Amazing book, amazing woman.
- De Hope en 04-05-12
De: Gloria Allred
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The Brethren
- Inside the Supreme Court
- De: Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices - maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.
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Amazing
- De Andy en 03-28-19
De: Bob Woodward, y otros
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Devil’s Knot
- The True Story of the West Memphis Three
- De: Mara Leveritt
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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“Free the West Memphis Three!” - maybe you’ve heard the phrase, but do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts? The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO documentaries called attention to the witch-hunt atmosphere at the trials, artists and other supporters raised concerns about the accompanying lack of evidence.
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Surprisingly disappointing
- De La Becket en 12-05-12
De: Mara Leveritt
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None of the Above
- The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators
- De: Shani Robinson, Anna Simonton
- Narrado por: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly a proxy for corporate greed.
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A well constructed story
- De Sumo Steve en 03-21-19
De: Shani Robinson, y otros
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Contempt
- A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
- De: Ken Starr
- Narrado por: Ken Starr
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of this period in American history. Now Starr finally shares his unique perspective on the investigation that began with the Whitewater land deal and spread to a wide range of President Clinton's actions, including accusations of sexual harassment and perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that have never before emerged as well as a new analysis from the perspective of history.
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Thought provoking and honest!
- De Sarah en 09-13-18
De: Ken Starr
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Wicked Takes the Witness Stand
- A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
- De: Mardi Link
- Narrado por: Jim McCance
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was clad only in jeans, a checkered shirt, and cowboy boots. Inside the cab of the truck was a fresh package of expensive steaks from a local butcher shop, the first lead in a case that would be quickly lost in a thicket of bungled forensics, shady prosecution, and a psychopathic star witness out for revenge.
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Justice system Vs Conviction system
- De Sean en 11-14-16
De: Mardi Link
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Anatomy of Injustice
- A Murder Case Gone Wrong
- De: Raymond Bonner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case.
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A miscarriage of justice if I've ever seen it
- De Education is KEY en 10-11-17
De: Raymond Bonner
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Bending Toward Justice
- The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
- De: Doug Jones, Greg Truman, Rick Bragg - foreword
- Narrado por: Doug Jones
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Who were the perpetrators? Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation.
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Great piece of History
- De rita en 03-08-19
De: Doug Jones, y otros
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People vs. Donald Trump
- An Inside Account
- De: Mark Pomerantz
- Narrado por: Mark Pomerantz
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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People vs. Donald Trump is a fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former president Donald Trump, written by one of the lawyers who worked on the case and resigned in protest when Manhattan’s district attorney refused to act.
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Bravo - Easy to Understand
- De Trisha en 02-09-23
De: Mark Pomerantz
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The Eichmann Trial
- De: Deborah E Lipstadt
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
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Avoid this one
- De Alan en 04-08-11
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Unwarranted
- Policing Without Permission
- De: Barry Friedman
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two seemingly disparate events are connected - and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us.
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Insightful book
- De laserpro en 03-02-17
De: Barry Friedman
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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- Veronica
- 01-17-23
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The book was very informative, well documented and supported with proper examples. The book was read brilliantly. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- Mr
- 04-10-19
Shocking but vital
10% inspiring, 40% depressing, 40% fascinating and 10% funny.
I was gifted reading this audiobook by a friend who works, sorry, worked for the CPS. She recently apologetically left her mountainous backlog in the hands of her dwindling colleagues. She gave me no hint as to the tenor of this book but attested to the emotions and truths conveyed within these pages, so well read by the narrator.
The author can reasonably be lauded as a heralding angel of a coming man-made disaster, this time not of the environment but instead, the systems that our ancestors incrementally crafted to protect us. These systems have, through self interest and neglect, been allowed to erode from the inside out. By the time we wider public notice the human cost, the cost to remedy may sadly be too high and a new dark ages of society may be our harvest.
I'd argue this is almost required reading by any inhabitant of the British isles if only to prepare them for that hopefully unlikely day when they find themselves lost in the fickle maelstrom of the legal system.
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- Kalyan Voruganti
- 01-02-20
very interesting, worth a listen
a very interesting book. not at all what I expected.
slightly scary too!!
a bit dry in places but some very fascinating insight.
the narrator is a bit preachy.
worth a listen
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- Anonymous User
- 07-25-19
Narrator is a bit too earnest, but important msg
I found the narrator to be annoying. Like a preachy mate who is right and rubs it in. This doesn't detract from the excellence of the work tho - the UK legal system is a car crash.
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- Adil
- 08-14-24
Important book
An insider reveals the deep flaws in England’s legal system - and the wide and serious ramifications for society and its members.
The book contains details but is engagingly narrated and humanised with stories of characters who suffer legal injustices - characters that could be people whom we know; they could even be us.
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