it's great to find a book written by a legal professional who also knows how to tell a story. the work explains law and criminal justice systems unpatronisingly, starting with the simple ideas, moving to the more complex seamlessly. it's helping make what should be a transparent system more open in gripping prose. This is a book full of dark subjects with plenty of content warnings to be aware of, but it's very engaging and I didn't get bored at all. Even the legal speak is done in a way that makes it easy to understand. It's almost written as if we are the jury, but instead of getting all the gritty details we get the bare bones. I must admit, in many of the cases I tried to guess what the outcome would be, and I wasn't always right - especially in the last case the author talks about.

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Focusing on six dramatic murder and manslaughter cases she details the inner workings of British law, removing the distinction between ‘them’ and ‘us’. She will be in conversation with leading legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg, host of Radio 4’s Law in Action and author of Enemies of the People?Tanya Goodin and Rory Cellan-Jones Switching off and Switching in: Living in the Digital Age Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 12:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Wendy Joseph Interviewed by Susannah Jowitt Unlawful Killings. Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey Exeter College: Marquee 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event The explanations are naturally made in the main by examining a number of different murder cases which the judge was at pains to explain are an amalgamation of trials she has sat in on, rather than individual cases. their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the…

The intention behind this book is a very serious one: to explain the workings of the law in murder cases, and ultimately to seek the failings in society that lie behind murders. Every unlawful death tells a story. Every trial involves characters to be understood, motives to be unravelled, plans and methodology to be exposed.” So writes Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC at the beginning of her riveting and revelatory début, Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey (Doubleday) . I was sorry when this one ended, and could easily have read another six trials and not been bored in the slightest. As we are taken through 6 different semi-fictionalised trials involving members from every section of society, Her Honour Wendy Joseph gives us access into a Judge’s perspective and uncovers the fundamentally human face under the cold steely mask of the law.

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And I can't get the story of the parents who killed their daughter out of my head due to the two kids involved. The fact that the mother and father were willing to allow their daughter to be ripped apart but not their son is disgusting. The utter sexism is hard to stomach, both the murder of the older daughter and the treatment of the younger daughter. And the fact the mother got a lawyer who is well known for ripping witnesses apart nastily and she was okay with her younger daughter going through that. And the fact that the mother was set free and took custody of them both again. I can't imagine that this didn't break the kids mentally. The boy witnessed the death. Your mother obviously loves her son more than her daughter and that would impact the girls mental psyche. And having to live with someone who all probably helped murder your sister. Both kids were utterly traumatised. I hope they got therapy. It's awful situation all around. I hope they grew up okay but probably not. I hope they are happy. Utterly heartbreaking situation.UNLAWFUL KILLINGS reads like a really terrific novel. It is riveting, thought-provoking, and very, very entertaining. I loved it.' -- Roddy Doyle Until her retirement in 2022, Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC (now KC) was a judge at the Old Bailey, sitting on criminal cases, trying mainly allegations of murder and other homicide. When she moved to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst sixteen judges, and only the third woman ever to hold a permanent position there. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey is her first book.

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I've been a fan of crime thrillers and detective novels for years. I love the thrill of the chase, working out 'whodunnit' and seeing the criminal being arrested and lead to the cells at the end. But what happens after that? In Unlawful Killings, Wendy Joseph takes the reader through six different murder trials that she has presided over as Judge and explains calmly, clearly and with great compassion what happened to the victims and what happens in a trial to the perpetrators of these terrible crimes. How does a jury get selected? What evidence will be presented, what is withheld? What guidance is provided when the jury go to deliberate their decision? All is revealed in this excellent book. I have been talking about this book pretty much non-stop since I read it! If anyone has any connections to the author and could ask her if she would come to my university to deliver a talk on criminal law to our students, I would be so grateful! Aside from its storytelling in the capacity of true crime, Her Honour also draws out a real and disturbing pattern — that in most cases before the court, our societal institutions have been the breeding ground for the very crimes we reprehend.

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Absolutely superb. 5 stars for sheer readability alone. Her Honour entertains as she educates us about murder, about the law and about how we human beings are shaped as we create the culture we live with. -- Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read