Sister in Law - Harriet Wistrich

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONDiscover 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 Remains‘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''A shocking, sobering and galvanising account of her astonishing legal career fighting for women in a legal system that is all too often stacked against them'' - Caroline Criado Perez*****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 take
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