With the Law on Our Side

A deeply entertaining top-to-bottom tour of the legal system in our land, told through captivating real cases in real courts, with the former President of the Supreme Court as our expert guide. By the author of the acclaimed memoir Spider Woman.

Our laws and justice system are vast and ancient- they might touch our lives when we have an accident, a wrong is done to us, or we have a family difficulty. And they cover everything from the personal to the regulation of our government. But to most of us they are a web of intimidating institutions and practices.

Lady Hale - former President of the Supreme Court and an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed - shows us how the law is on our side. Taking us into the complexities of real courts and real decisions, we see that we all have rights- schoolchildren, the disabled, workers, minorities and patients.

Here are true stories from every part of the justice system, from lowly benefits tribunals and magistrates' courts to the lofty heights of the Royal Courts of Justice and the Old Bailey; stories about the dilemmas of deciding what is right and just, which invite you to say where justice lies before knowing what the courts decided. From mundane situations to the dramatic and the extraordinary, we see how the people whose needs the law is designed to protect actually experience it.

With The Law on Our Side is a citizen's handbook to the law in our land, a top-to-bottom tour with a supremely expert guide. In captivating stories, it tells us what the law is about, how it works and most importantly why we should all care about it.