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

    By The Secret Barrister

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    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
    'A powerful polemic' - The Sunday Times
    'A compelling, eye-opening read' - Daily Express

    – Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat?
    – Is the law on the side of the burglar who enters your home?
    – Are unelected judges ‘enemies of the people’?

    Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.

    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. This 'fake law' allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge – worse, we risk letting them make us complicit.

    Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. 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.
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    Writing as S. J. Fleet, The Secret Barrister's first novel, The Cut Throat Trial, is available for pre-order now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateSep 3, 2020
    ISBN9781529009965
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    The Secret Barrister

    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.

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      A follow up to the Secret Barrister. More about the UK law in general than about the justice system. I got a little bit fed up towards the end but it's still a book that every UK citizen should read.

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