The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

by The Secret Barrister

That defendants, victims and, ultimately, society are being failed daily by an entrenched disregard for fundamental principles of fairness. That we are moving from a criminal justice system to simply a criminal system.

You can become inured to the blood-spattered underbelly of the human condition; unmoved by the mundanity of yet another ‘bog standard’ stabbing, or desensitized by the unending parade of sexual abuse.

Simply put, if enough people don’t believe the state to be capable of dispensing justice, they may start to dispense it themselves.