How to be a defence lawyer. Tips from barrister William Clegg QC

How should a lawyer defend a client?

One of England's top advocates, William Clegg QC, gives some his tips in this video.

His bestselling book Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence (Canbury Press ISBN 9781912454082) goes behind the scenes of the law.

It's been called "gripping" by The Times and "fascinating" by The Secret Barrister.

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
The Murder of Jill Dando
The first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the UK
The Murder of Joanna Yeates
The Rebekah Brooks Phone Hacking Trial

REVIEWS

'This is a gripping memoir from one of our country's greatest jury advocates, offering a fascinating, no-holds-barred tour behind the scenes of some of the most famous criminal cases of modern times.'

- The Secret Barrister

'Countless veteran lawyers have produced page-tuners based in the fictional world of law, but in Under the Wig William Clegg, QC, has distilled his extraordinary life in the criminal courtroom into a yarn equally as gripping.'

- The Times

'How do you speak in defence of someone accused of a savage murder? How do you sway a jury or get a judge to drop a case? All these judicious questions and more are answered in an eloquent and riveting memoir by one of this country's leading murder case defence lawyers.'

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