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Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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The book is a collection of essays exploring the many challenges and inequalities within the criminal justice system.

You can add to that police corruption, police wanting to clear up cases to make their own records look good for promotion and pay rises.SB - via the voice of Jack Hawkins - will grab you by the hand and drag you onto the rollercoaster that is our justice system. One such consequence, she wrote, is when the ‘victim��s movement’ campaigned for greater legal protections from the crimes committed by ‘villains’. In June 2016 over 17 million British people voted to leave the European Union – the highest number of people who had ever voted for anything in British political history. It has been misrepresented over the decades by the press and politicians who wish to cement their power base and cover up their shortcomings. Blake Morrison wrote in the Independent that James Bulger's murderers must get justice from an adult world.

The Secret Barrister's love of the law shines through this book, with a number of widely held beliefs about the law explained concisely and clearly, adding the much needed context necessary for the public to understand what the judgments are actually saying about the case in point. 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. In the same vain, the public and political reactions to these cases also proved valuable and interesting because it helped break the notion of law being an isolated thing to study rather than a instrument that is fundamental to everyday life and have had significant changes on both society and the rhetoric surrounding politics.The writing, the information, the fact that the book has made me think to the extent it has changed my life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. There's a lot of really interesting cases covered in this book, and while I would have enjoyed some more personal anecdotes here and there, examining some of the big headlines of today was a fantastic approach. Jack Hawkins remains to be an incredible narrator, exacly matching the witty and often exasperated tone of the author. Resultantly, the reader grows increasingly disheartened about all the misinformation that's doing the rounds! The flaw is how we approach the issue of self-defence is located not in the law, not in its application by the justice system but in our common understanding and that understanding - or rather lack of it - can be more influential than the law itself.You've seen all the tv documentaries, you've read all the stories of people who spent years in prison, even death row, before it was proved (usually these days through dna) that they didn't do it. The Secret Barrister aims to bridge that gap by providing a candid, and hopefully accessible, explanation of our criminal justice system, of how it works, and of how, all too often, it doesn’t. Fake law is, among other definitions, the misinterpretation of the law and legal processs either wilfully or through ignorance.

Understand what you are being fed and why, so you can make informed decisions about what to believe and what to support. He had repeatedly told his local farm group meetings that the best way to stop them, "shoot the bastards". Perhaps it would’ve been better to start with the chapter about the process of criminal law and build up. In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds a defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy that is as entertaining as it is vital.

I mention this story, because it is one of the cases referred to by The Secret Barrister in their new book, Fake Law, in which they try to counteract some of the inaccurate stories we are constantly being fed by various sections of society, including the media, vested interest groups and, sadly, to an increasing degree, our own government, why this misinformation is so damaging to the very fabric of our society and why each of us on a personal level should care. This has led to the creation of two parallel worlds – the one inhabited by working lawyers and judges and the one built by those who loudly promote ill-informed nonsense - Fake Law. The Secret Barrister carefully explains the duty of the court and the critical importance of the welfare of the two children. The book does continue to express the relationship between these two interlocking ideals, but the concepts became confusing to put it mildly.

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