Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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The young are always drawn to Marxism, as they should be - it is a wonderful theory, really idealistic. However, the writing is set out clearly with the lay reader, not the legally educated, in mind and all of the principles are set out in a basic fashion using simple language and illustrated with easy to digest examples and comparators. In this day and age with information so freely available it should follow that the truth has no where to hide, but instead it increasingly feels as if truth is getting harder to find. In conclusion, the term Fake Law is used in the title to sensationalise the book for improved sales rather genuinely attempting to tackle the concept for a better understanding of the law.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. About the Author: The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specialising in criminal law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. Yes, the enemy might be winning, the chips are down, the walls breached and all other metaphors and analogies you might come up with; but the rebels are still fighting in, still scoring victories, still causing the bad guys to clench their black-gloved fists and growl about crushing ‘lefty human rights lawyers’ with not a little hint (if you forgive the switch of analogy) of complaining about how they would have got away with it ‘if it wasn’t for those meddling kids’. Indeed, by the end of certain chapters there are certain names the very mention of whom should draw your ire (looking at Chris Grayling in particular here).Most of the middle chapters in the book describe procedural legal concepts, leaving the reader to decide what, how and where fake law is more prevalent. Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. Since most people understand the world and how news, politics and culture function and how it impacts them through the media, it is of prime importance to know exactly how to judge what is totally fake, what is based on reality, what is absolutely real but misinterpreted and what can be taken for truth.

I’ve been getting so angry about the media/social media and misinformation, but equally, as you mention – not knowing who to trust, it’s been happening for years and in different ways, but I think this year is the first time it’s really become blatantly apparent. 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. In the UK, if you get prosecuted for shooting an intruder and you get a sympathetic jury, then you're acquitted, if you get one that isn't even with all facts the same and no one offering a different version of events, then you go to prison!

So, the court was asked to rule on whether Charlie could travel to America, or whether he should stay in England, and die.