Rough Justice
  • Published: 4 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780857529671
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $50.00

Rough Justice

Do we have the law we deserve?

  • Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC
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Brilliant and provocative story-telling from the iconic murder judge, author of Sunday Times bestseller, Unlawful Killings

What is justice? Do our legal courts dispense it? Has our judicial process improved, for the victims, the accused and for society? What more must be done to ensure genuine justice is carried out in future?

Following on the heels of her bestseller Unlawful Killings, Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph KC skilfully reconstructs courtroom dramas affecting society’s most vulnerable - so often women and children, drawing on her many years’ experience as a murder trial judge, and asking the key questions of the institutions tasked to deliver what is right and fair.

From the trial of a child charged with disposing of dismembered body parts, to the woman accused of killing her own husband, Joseph is utterly compelling as she sets out how our justice system works. But, as she compares these modern courtroom tales with eerily similar cases and miscarriages of justice from years ago, might the most chilling story of all be that the lessons of the past have yet to be learned?

Incisive, masterfully crafted, Rough Justice illuminates the struggles of any one of us caught up in our legal system – but particularly the marginalized and the easily exploited – and grapples with the concept of ‘justice for all’ so that we might demand better.
  • Published: 4 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780857529671
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $50.00
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Praise for Rough Justice

Beautifully written, immensely engaging, powerful and disturbing insight into a judge’s work and the choices faced.

Peter James, author of the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series

A vivid picture of the thoughts, feelings and actions of a woman judge as she tries cases involving women as victims/perpetrators and asks herself whether we do them justice. A compelling read.

Lady Hale

A fascinating and entertaining view of our criminal justice system from the perspective of the Bench. Wendy Joseph tells stories of criminal prosecutions where women are on trial for serious offences. All the characters of the crown court come alive from judge’s clerk to problematic jury members, from overconfident counsel to the frightened defendant with Her Honour left to play umpire and make the whole system run as smoothly as possible. It is a relatively fair procedure, but can justice be served in cases where there is often a complex and hidden past?’

Harriet Wistrich, author of Sister in Law