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How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or sway a jury? Or get a judge to drop a case?
Find out in this in this memoir from a top murder case lawyer. In this vivid memoir, barrister William Clegg QC revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials in the English courts system, from the acquittal of Colin Stagg to the murder of Jill Dando, to the man given life because of an earprint and the first Nazi war crimes prosecution.
All the while he lays bare the secrets of English advocates, from the rivalry among his fellow barristers to the nervous moments before a verdict comes back - and how our right to a fair trial is now at risk.
Under the Wig is for anyone who wants to know the reality of a murder trial. Switch off the TV dramas and plunge into the criminal law in action.
Well-known cases featured:
The Murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common
The Chillenden Murders (Dr. Lin and Megan Russell)
The Trial of Private Lee Clegg, when Clegg's junior barrister was the future Labour leader Keir Starmer
The Murder of TV presenter Jill Dando
The first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the UK
The Murder of Joanna Yeates
The Rebekah Brooks Phone Hacking Trial
William Clegg QC, is one of the most celebrated advocates at the English bar. A barrister for 47 years, he has been the go-to lawyer for complex murder and fraud cases for decades. He is head of chambers at 2 Bedford Row, one of the four leading criminal sets in London.
Find out in this in this memoir from a top murder case lawyer. In this vivid memoir, barrister William Clegg QC revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials in the English courts system, from the acquittal of Colin Stagg to the murder of Jill Dando, to the man given life because of an earprint and the first Nazi war crimes prosecution.
All the while he lays bare the secrets of English advocates, from the rivalry among his fellow barristers to the nervous moments before a verdict comes back - and how our right to a fair trial is now at risk.
Under the Wig is for anyone who wants to know the reality of a murder trial. Switch off the TV dramas and plunge into the criminal law in action.
Well-known cases featured:
The Murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common
The Chillenden Murders (Dr. Lin and Megan Russell)
The Trial of Private Lee Clegg, when Clegg's junior barrister was the future Labour leader Keir Starmer
The Murder of TV presenter Jill Dando
The first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the UK
The Murder of Joanna Yeates
The Rebekah Brooks Phone Hacking Trial
William Clegg QC, is one of the most celebrated advocates at the English bar. A barrister for 47 years, he has been the go-to lawyer for complex murder and fraud cases for decades. He is head of chambers at 2 Bedford Row, one of the four leading criminal sets in London.