num_pages: 320
description: Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal the lies secrets failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns?Nothing But The Truth charts an outsiders progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar taking in the sometimes absurd traditions of the Inns of Court where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the Queen to the Hunger Games-type contest for pupillage through the endlessly frustrating experience of being a junior barrister  as a creaking ailing justice system begins to convince them that something has to change . . .Full of hilarious shocking and surprising stories Nothing But The Truth tracks the Secret Barristers transformation from hang em and flog em austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning bestselling reforming author whose writing in defence of the law is celebrated around the globe. It asks questions about what we understand by justice and what it takes to change our minds. It also reveals the darker side of working in criminal law and how the things our justice system gets wrong are not the things most people expect.
language: English
title: Nothing But The Truth
publisher: Picador