Dirty Briefs

For those who think that all barristers are high flyers blessed with fabulous incomes and sophisticated lives, this book will decisively re inform you.  Being a criminal barrister is one of the toughest, most challenging and correspondingly underpaid jobs there is. This book reveals the shocking down and dirty truth of what goes on behind the scenes of our publicly funded and ‘world leading’ legal justice system. It will emphatically dispel any myth that those who we dare trust to steer the ship are any less maladjusted than the very clients they represent.

‘The flaws in human nature and the messes that people find themselves in never ceased to amaze me, not least those of the lawyers themselves. What the general public do not know, because no one has admitted to it until now, is that the best advocates have powers of persuasion proficient to sell holes to donut manufacturers, not through academia or noble pursuit, but from a lifetime closeting skeletons, lying to the bank manager, or negotiating with the shopkeeper at the local ‘Bargain Booze’.

Adversity being the source of much humour, Fendem`s journaling to ease his troubled mind gave life to ‘Dirty Briefs’; a book which hilariously recounts tales straight from inner city police stations, locked psychiatric wards, and the well of the courtroom including the Old Bailey and Court of Appeal. They are guaranteed to offend, surprise and amuse you in equal measure.

Maybe because the memoirs were never supposed to end up in print, this really is the unedited view from the inside. Refreshingly absent the pomp, pretence and crusade, these rude and brazen tales are not for the prim or nervously disposed.