WHERE'S THE JUSTICE? A Manifesto for law Reform

Paperback. The finest legal system in the world? this opinion of British justice is widely accepted, yet as the author argues, the contradiction between this powerful myth and the reality of the everyday operation of our courts is profoundly disillusioning. A practising barrister (at the time) and an active canpaigner for human rights, his experience showed that many ordinary people found the law forbidding and incomprehensible, and that those who suffered the worst injustices were mental patients, the economically underprivileged, children in care, and those confronting racism and sexism. Here the author puts forward a manifesto for change. His proposals, he contended, were not utopian ideals but goals that a truly radical and imaginative government could achieve within the span of a 5yr Parliament. These reforms would totally reshape our legal system, building upon its positive aspects and abolish measures that were archaic and repressive, to ensure that each individual received real justice. With Notes and Index. 126pp. p/back. Vg+ with no creasing to covers.