In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

by Sarah Langford

For, at its heart, the law is about humanity. It is about the thousand little flecks of perception and judgement that spin through the air in a courtroom, across language and class and gender. It is the reason we do not try cases on paper alone, but instead insist on holding up living, breathing flesh, and testing each side with equal strength. And, when we do that and we do it well, I believe that, more often than not, justice is done.