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

Product Information

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The book sets out many of the most contentious legal firestorms of the past few decades, recaps on what the general public have been lead to believe about these issues by certain factions, explains very clearly why much of the information we have been fed is misleading at best and downright dishonest in some cases, and then asks why it may be the interests of certain parties for us not to be given the whole truth about these matters, and what negative consequences for each of us arise when we nod along with this misinformation. The day a judge makes a binding decision affecting the rights and liberties of one of us, not on the legal and factual merits, but with a nervous glance to the press and public galleries, or with a beady eye on political favour or punishment, is the day that the decay in our democracy turns terminal.

The cases are specific to the UK and its legal system (which is similar enough to the Australia’s that I understand the generalities) but ‘fake law’ is not a phenomenon unique to the UK. I love the law, I have since I was 13 and first became entranced by the idea of pursuing it as a profession.There has always been a tendency for the media and politic By the time he was six months old, Charlie was a permanent resident in Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, unable to breathe without a ventilator. I like to think I’m a critical thinker, I don’t just rely on the first page of google results for information, I never take Facebook posts or tweets at face value, and I’m sceptical of media headlines. The Secret Barrister is the anonymous pen name of a successful barrister, whose mission is to demystify the law for the average citizen.

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. El libro se centra principalmente en los incidentes ocurridos en el Reino Unido y su repercusión, con menciones ocasionales a la UE y a los Estados Unidos. Their debut book, Stories of The Law and How It’s Broken, was a Sunday Times bestseller for 24 consecutive weeks, and was named the Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018 at the Books Are My Bag Awards. It's an eye-opening account of how confirmation bias leads us to make opinions irrationally and without considering the underlying evidence.He had previously shot at a man's vehicle who had tried to steal some apples from one of his trees and consequently lost his gun licence. If you enjoy those daily moments of cutting through the crap while also entertaining delightfully, then ‘Fake Law’ is absolutely a book for you. So you take a test, it says you are lying, so now the police take this as absolute 100% proof and that is their agenda and they will work to fit all evidence to it.

UK и как хората тук се превръщат във все по-големи мазохисти, но бих казала, че е чудесен пример как всъщност са нещата навсякъде. The book is a collection of essays exploring the many challenges and inequalities within the criminal justice system.

Do not speak out against whoever is running it and what that faction says people must believe and must not say. From legal aid to employment tribunals, from shooting burglars to deporting immigrants, the author reveals the important unreported detail behind news headlines and political catchphrases. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018. It's not easy to explain concepts like hearsay in layman's terms successfully, but the author manages this with ease and provides the reader with appropriate context.