10, and I’m well aware of many of the crass, cruel and downright stupid things Patel and others have said over the years regarding law and order. I’m no fan of the rabble that currently occupy No.

Perhaps this book is cathartic for the author. God knows how SB (a working barrister) manages to cope. The way the British public are led by the nose by the Press and scurrilous MPs trying to make names for themselves (or look like they’re doing something useful to hide the fact they’re utterly pointless) just brings one to despair. This book has been lovingly crafted and is clearly no intended money-spinner it is a labour of love, written with conviction.īut what a perverse love it is. It is beautifully written, wonderfully easy to get through and written so vividly that you often feel like you’re in those courtrooms or actually chatting with the author over a cup of tea in their kitchen.

I raise my prediction only because this is no dry tome about law. I’ll be impressed if, one day, it turns out the unmasked SB is indeed a male of the species. the author writes so compassionately and sympathetically it is hard to imagine a man so skilled. While it doesn’t matter in terms of judging quality, I continue to believe SB is a woman simply because, again. In this latest book, SB turns a sharp eye to the media and how MPs utterly trash the reputation of the courts and legal practitioners with huge detrimental impact on everyone – and often creating situations of considerable danger. In the first book, the author looked at the legal system and demonstrated all but unequivocally that government under-funding and distinctly iffy traditions (don’t ever go to Magistrate’s Court if you can help it) have led to a system on its knees. The anonymous ‘Secret Barrister’ is back with another hard-hitting and surprisingly emotional roller-coaster ride of a book about exactly what’s going wrong in law.

Fake law the secret barrister