Hot on the heels of her best-seller Unlawful Killings, Wendy Joseph KC skilfully reconstructs four courtroom dramas, drawing on her many years’ experience as a murder judge to ask if our justice system works, and if it has improved over the centuries. She talks to host Marg Mayne about whether or not today we are delivering what is right and fair to both the perpetrators and the victims of heinous crimes.

Until March 2022 Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC was a judge at the Old Bailey, sitting on criminal cases, trying mainly allegations of murder and other homicide. She read English and Law at Cambridge, was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1975, became a QC in 1998 and sat as a full-time judge from 2007 to 2022. When she moved to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst 16 judges, and only the third woman ever to hold a permanent position there. Her first book, Unlawful Killings, won the Crime Writer's Association 'Gold Dagger' for Non-fiction and was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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