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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8h

What’s that, you say?

You enjoy critically acclaimed gritty, authentic crime and legal thrillers?

You enjoy reading such thrillers on an electronic medium, such as e-book?

You enjoy ridonculous bargains?

#TheCutThroatTrial is a crazy £1.99 today.

Go nuts.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Lewis! This is exactly the effect I was aiming for. You have made my afternoon.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 4h

This is just over 66p per defendant! Lower than legal aid rates. A bargain; it’s an excellent read. I won’t spoiler it but the last bit is extremely sinister and you probably won’t have guessed how. The book as a whole left me thinking about truth, and how it is rationed in the courtroom.

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8h

What’s that, you say?

You enjoy critically acclaimed gritty, authentic crime and legal thrillers?

You enjoy reading such thrillers on an electronic medium, such as e-book?

You enjoy ridonculous bargains?

#TheCutThroatTrial is a crazy £1.99 today.

Go nuts.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5h

This is an eminently fair review. I endorse it wholeheartedly.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5h

I just knew you would.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7h

Well funnily enough, the hard back is currently half price here…

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

The Cut Throat Trial: The unmissable thriller from the author of The Secret Barrister : Fleet, S. J., Barrister, The Secret: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8h

If Kindle ain’t your thing, the same crazed £1.99 special offer on #TheCutThroatTrial is available on Kobo too.

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

The Cut Throat Trial ebook by S. J. Fleet - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Cut Throat Trial The unmissable thriller from the author of The Secret Barrister" by S. J. Fleet available from Rakuten Kobo. The first legal thriller from the million-copy bestselling Secre...

www.kobo.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8h

What’s that, you say?

You enjoy critically acclaimed gritty, authentic crime and legal thrillers?

You enjoy reading such thrillers on an electronic medium, such as e-book?

You enjoy ridonculous bargains?

#TheCutThroatTrial is a crazy £1.99 today.

Go nuts.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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Chris Ewan @chrisewan.bsky.social · 1d

I have a new book coming!

EYE SPY is out in March 2026, it’s a thriller set on the Eurostar, and it looks a lot like this!

www.amazon.co.uk/Eye-Spy-addi...

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RM Griffiths @rmgriffiths.bsky.social · 2d

The Cut Throat Trial by @barristersecret.bsky.social is a superb legal thriller. I loved the drip feed approach by using the perspectives of different actors in the trial. It manages to be pacy, gripping, shocking, and yet, truly believable.

I’ve been recommending it to everyone.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

Yes I am.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 6d

Ooooh! You cheeky cheeky monkey!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 7d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 6d

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 7d

Jenrick complains that there are immigration judges (presumably he means the part-time ones) who spend the rest of their time representing immigrants.

Wait until someone tells him about Recorders (part-time Crown Court judges) who spend the rest of their time defending the accused.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

You’d have to ask the foaming race-baiters. From his incoherent babbling, it sounds as if Honest Bob is going to decide every criminal sentencing and immigration decision himself.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

It’s largely academic, because @KemiBadenoch is on a Liz Truss trajectory towards the US Nutter Circuit. But that the Leader of the Opposition would spread such utter lies - adding in her ignorance by suggesting the Sentencing Council has any role in immigration - is pathetic.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 7d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 8d

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA.
1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 8d

Summary here by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of the so far unpublished but apparently “circulating” “legal advice” by Lord Wolfson to the Tory party. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

How UK could leave ECHR

Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

open.substack.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 9d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 9d

Batshit.

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