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I really enjoyed this book. If ever I was on trial I would want my judge to be this one. She is compassionate, in control and understands the reality that exists outside the courtroom. Anyone who has worked in the Crown Court would recognise how true to life the court room scenes are. The fictional crime scenarios make compelling stories. What is unique is that they are placed in a wider context which challenges the assumptions that lie behind our criminal justice policy. A great read for those who want to understand how the system works now and why it is going wrong. -- Cherie Blair CBE QC Viola di Grado Interviewed by Suzi Feay Blue Hunger Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event

Unlawful Killings by Wendy Joseph — the inside story of six

Elias Chacour Interviewed by Diarmaid MacCulloch A Palestinian Christian Working for Peace and Reconciliation in Israel CANCELLED Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Wendy’s career in the law forms a perfect and inspiring arc of achievement; a girl from Cardiff with a love of English Literature (which she read at Cambridge until changing to law in her final year) who, in 2012, became only the third ever full-time female judge at the Old Bailey, after Nina Lowry in the late 80s and 90s, and Anne Goddard QC in the late 90s and early 2000s. She lost her father while still at school and her mum was nervous that the Bar was a poor choice of career, given the imperative of ‘needing to earn a living’.Maxim Osipov Interviewed by Lucian Hudson Kilometer 101 Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

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

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. 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.I don’t agree with many of the automatic reduction of sentences guidelines despite the mitigating factors but at least I now know why some sentences are appalling inadequate. 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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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 In Episode 166 Rosalind English talks to Wendy Joseph about the human stories that are played out in the Old Bailey. Tom Crewe, Maddie Mortimer, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Santanu Bhattacharya Chaired by Matthew Stadlen New Writers of Fiction Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 4:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this event Her book is outstanding. It is one of the best non-fiction books that I've read for many years. She writes with a novelist's flair and ease about things that are real and often tragic and sad. Throughout the book, various different cases are discussed, all involving the death of at least one person. The way that she describes the court room, and the people within it is fascinating. Wendy Joseph has provided those of us who have only a limited understand of the world of a courtroom, an insight into how it really works, the role of a judge, a jury as well as the numerous people who support society in its pursuit of justice.

The cases range from a youth stabbing by youth offenders, an infanticide, the death of a gang member as a result of dangerous driving in a motor vehicle crash , an honour’ killing, a murder of a spouse by an ex soldier in the throes of a violent PTSD episode and a battered wife who shot her criminal husband. Some fascinating stories that were absolutely ruined by the hideous narration. Stupid accents that only reinforce old stereotypes made it practically impossible to listen to it

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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. Fastest, I’ve ever listed to an audiobook. Just great. Judge Joseph has used her experience to write 6 vignettes of what she see’s everyday in court. Gregory Platten and Alexander Stoddart Festival Evensong Pusey House: Chapel 6:00pm Fri 31 Friday, 31 March 2023 See this eventRight now, with our courts straining under the weight of the many heinous crimes being committed, it's not merely the system that is flawed. The fracture lines that run through our society are becoming harder and harder to ignore and, from a unique vantage point, the author warns that we do so at our peril.