Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men

Harriet Wistrich's book "Sister in Law" explores how the UK legal system fails women and highlights landmark cases where the law has been skewed towards men. She has been a trailblazer in legal victories, such as representing victims of taxi driver and serial rapist John Worboys and women caught up in the 'spy cops scandal'. The book showcases the shocking true stories of women who have been failed by the justice system and offers a feminist perspective on the landscape of arcane laws and systems.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Discover the essential, must-read book about how the UK legal system is failing women, as told by one of Britain's foremost lawyers.

This is a brilliant and important book. Harriet is a trailblazer and has done so much to get justice for so many women.

- Victoria Derbyshire

Compelling, inspiring, horrifying, and humbling in equal measure. Everybody should read it.

- Professor Dame Sue Black, author of All That Remain

'Every feminist should know Harriet Wistrich's name. There is no one better to learn from if you want to Get Shit Done. Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women

For more than quarter of a century, Harriet Wistrich has fought the corner of people from all walks of life let down by our justice system.

She has been at the forefront of some historic and ground-breaking legal victories, from helping the victims of taxi driver and serial rapist John Worboys, to representing a pioneering group of the women caught up in the 'spy cops scandal – women deceived into forming long-term relationships with men later revealed to be undercover police officers.

Litigation can be a long and rocky path of pitfalls and dead ends, and there are defeats as well as gains, hours of painstaking work as well as courtroom drama.

It takes collaboration, extraordinary tenacity, and huge compassion, but Harriet Wistrich is proof that it is possible to demand better justice and to bring about important change.

Exploring landmark cases, Sister in Law covers the shocking true stories demonstrating that, terrifyingly often, the law is not fit-for-purpose for half the population and shines a feminist light on the landscape of arcane laws and systems skewed towards men.

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Praise for Sister in Law:

'Shocking, compelling, and invigorating ... A must read.'

- Harriet Wistrich

Weight: 562g
Dimension: 242 x 164 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911709268