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

by The Secret Barrister

The test I think, in all such cases, is to put yourself in the shoes of the falsely accused.

‘To be an effective criminal defence counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.’1 Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)