Under the Wig: A Lawyer’s Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence
Description:
How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or sway a jury? Or get a judge to drop a case?
William Clegg QC is a leading criminal lawyer in London. In this vivid memoir, he revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials, 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 in the UK.
All the while he lays bare the secrets of his profession, from the rivalry among 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
• 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
Table of Contents
Introduction: How can you defend a man like that?
Case 1: The Wimbledon Common Murder
Perry Mason and the Art of Advocacy
Case 2: The Murder of Samantha Bisset
Ronnie Trott, pupil master
Case 3: The Chillenden Murders
Learning how to fight a case
Case 4: Helen Hodgson
Mutiny at 3 Hare Court
Case 5: Waking the Dead in Belarus
How to Become a QC
Case 6: Andrusha the Bastard
Defending Fraudsters
Case 7: Convicted by Earprint
Winning the Trust of a Judge
Case 8: Private Clegg and the Joyriders
How to Appeal to a Jury
Case 9: A Murder Without a Body?
21st Century Set
Case 10: War Crimes in the Balkans
Inside Chambers: Rivalry and Camaraderie
Case 11: The Murder of Jill Dando
Bribery and Corruption
Case 12: A Ghetto Shoot-out in Jamaica
Trying Times for Legal Aid
Case 13: The Murder of Joanna Yeates
Private Clients
Case 14: The Phone Hacking Trial
Afterword: A Life of Crime
Acknowledgements
Index
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