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Winner of the Books are My Bag nonfiction Award

Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year

Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year

‘Eye-opening, damning and hilarious’ Tim Shipman, author of All Out Battle and Fall Out

“I’m a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, romantic relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, called drivers, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, coffee-supplier, surrogate parent and, on about THE TRICK Barrister: Stories of regulations and How It’s Broken one memorable event, whatever the official term is for someone tasked with breaking the news to a prisoner that his sweetheart has been diagnosed with gonorrhoea.”

Welcome to the globe of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. They are occasionally funny, often shifting and ultimately life-changing.

How can you defend a child-abuser you think to be guilty? What perform you say to somebody sentenced to a decade who you believe to become innocent? What is the law and why do we need it?

And why do they wear those stupid wigs?

From your criminals to the lawyers, the victims, witnesses and officers of the law, here is the best and worst of humanity, all struggling within a broken system which would never be off the front pages if the public knew what it had been really like.

Both a searing first-hand account from the human cost of the criminal justice system, and helpful information to how exactly we experienced this mess, THE TRICK Barrister wants to demonstrate what it’s enjoy and why it really matters.