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Title
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom
ISBN
9780670918300
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom
Item Height
234 mm
Author
Alex Mcbride
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
Topic
Law, Memorials
Item Weight
367 g
Item Width
153 mm
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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As a criminal barrister, you work with the material you get: a junkie shoplifter with thirty-five previous convictions and four packs of Lidl's frozen chicken stuffed down his trousers is heading only one way... Every day, like every criminal barrister in this country, Alex McBride stands up in court and, with nothing but quick-thinking, sharp-talking and his hard-won legal expertise, attempts to save people from criminal conviction, prison, even a lifetime behind bars. Sometimes he's had only a few hours to prepare his case. Sometimes his client is obviously guilty. In this hilarious, heart-stopping memoir, he takes us behind the scenes of Britain's criminal justice system - in barristers' chambers, in the courtroom, in the cells and on the streets - introducing us to its outlandish personalities, arcane eccentricities and its many moving stories of triumph and defeat. Whether he's defending hapless teenagers at Harlow Youth Court or prosecuting gold bullion robbers at the Bailey, his hair-raising tales reveal all the secrets of courtroom success and what it takes to survive in this chaotic world of fluked escapes and crushed hopes. Throughout he attempts to answer that most important question: how do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free?

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Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780670918300
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Book Title
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Law, Memorials
Type
Textbook
Author
Alex Mcbride
Format
Paperback

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234 mm
Item Weight
367 g
Item Width
153 mm

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Alex Mcbride
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    • by sallyforth99
      24 Jul, 2019

      Behind the scenes for a barrister in training

      Alex McBride was a pupil barrister for a year, defending perpetrators of petty crimes -- the seniors in the chambers took all the interesting cases. He defended muggers, robbers and burglars, including a few career criminals. Some admitted their crimes, others tried to lie their way out of it. A few were so naive that they shot themselves in the foot. In s few cases the prosecution was so inept that he got his client off. It was a Radio 4 book of the week when first published, and it was a pleasure to reread it.

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