The Secret Barrister claims to debunk, chapter by chapter, a wide range of ‘myths’ about the law: that illegal immigrants and foreign criminals cannot be deported because of the Human Rights Act that people are sent to prison for defending their homes from burglars that there is a lucrative industry of ambulance-chasing which has made the country paranoid about health and safety that unelected judges attempted to block Brexit etc. The justice system is not broken after all. He tells us that shocking media stories about our shambolic courts are untrue. The substantive argument, however, seems to be quite the opposite. The style of entertaining rants is similar to the first book. The book became an award-winning bestseller, and ‘the Secret Barrister’ became a star of social media.įrom this elevated position, he has now published another anonymous volume, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies. The word ‘broken’ here is a pun: the book argued that the system of justice was underfunded and altogether ‘broken’. Pavel Stroilov, consultant to the Christian Legal Centre, comments on the new book by ‘The Secret Barrister’ – Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies.Ī couple of years ago, an anonymous author published a book entitled The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it is Broken.
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