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The information about the law and legal cases that ends up being published comes from government departments keen to push their own agenda by distorting reality.
Some people, feeling very intimidated, or perhaps they do know all about something but it was a brother or someone close, or just because they are jumpy, emotionally-unstable people cause the person administering the test to conclude they are lying or hiding something. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. An early question in the book dominated this discussion where, (a) should public opinion alongside political dogma influence the life of death of the child or (b) should it be the opinion of the medical experts and the courts. The Want to Read list dilemma Every time I find a book I really, really want to read, it means another book I bought and really, really wanted to read, gets pushed down further.There's a lot to be said about the political attacks on the legislation that is designed to keep us safe from those who would prey on us, and this book states its case well. The book shows that the law indeed needs to be ‘supercharged’ so that the likes of Mr Bumble are not party to a law that is neither fit for purpose nor able to explain its purpose.
The writing, the information, the fact that the book has made me think to the extent it has changed my life. NB that while the current govt is rightly held up for its flagrant attack on human rights and access to justice, the previous Labour govt was just as guilty in its contempt for the rule of law. If you are British and like Nigel Farrage for any reason, you might not after reading this and it's nothing to do with Brexit. We lie back and allow ourselves to be enveloped in misinformed resentment towards our suffering neighbours receiving restitution, viewing it as a sore on, rather than a credit to, a civilised society. Our unfamiliarity also makes us vulnerable to those who would exploit the gaps in our knowledge to push ulterior agendas.
It's an eye-opening account of how confirmation bias leads us to make opinions irrationally and without considering the underlying evidence. The overall thesis is this: the public is being conned out of its rights and – like turkeys voting for Christmas – not only accepts, but applauds that fact. Coming as I do from a background in law myself, I am familiar with the majority of the legal issues and concepts that The Secret Barrister puts forward in the book, hence why many of the cases they highlight here are ones that have had me personally raging on Twitter. It is evident everywhere, under every regime, and has already had an impact on the integrity of legal process, which is particularly noticeable in country’s where the judicial system is unduly influenced by political stakeholders.
Se centra especialmente en los incidentes en los que los políticos de todo el mundo han abusado de las tragedias personales para promover sus intereses personales. Spoiler: most of what the papers tell you about the law – from ambulance chasers rolling in compensation cash to lily-livered judges letting criminals off lightly – is misleading. Their desk is covered with dozens of sodden post-its, used to mop up their tears of frustration as they fight the rising tide of misinformation that threatens to engulf us. This 'fake law' allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge - worse, we risk letting them make us complicit. His attempts to explain the importance of representing ‘unpopular defendants’ were drowned out by the rage of his students, whose petitions, marches and vandalism – Whose side are you on?I vividly remember an evening in 2016 when I went out to dinner with a group of around eight of my closest friends. This disturbing new phenomenon, akin to fake news, involves the media and politicians seeking to distort the truth about our legal system and how it impacts our freedoms.
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