Edward Romain: Alone in Court, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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'A clarion call for greater access to justice for ordinary citizens.' Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, from the Foreword

In more than three out of four civil cases in America's big-city courts, at least one side has no lawyer. Nobody tells them what they are walking into.

This book does. Drawing on the case files of Blind Justice UK, it follows ordinary people through the decision to fight, the paper war, the tactics of the other side, the day in court, the cost, the obsession, the loneliness, and what winning and walking away really feel like. Every chapter ends with what it means for you.

An electrician owed twelve thousand pounds for work already done, who found that being right was nowhere near enough. A teaching assistant whose defense never reached the judge, and who sat in court holding her copy of it while possession was granted. A hairdresser who opened a twelve-page letter from a law firm and felt her hands go cold. A woman who won her tribunal claim on every point and recovered a fraction of the award. Their names have been changed. What happened to them has not.

This is not a textbook. It is a field guide, written by someone who has stood in court alone himself, for anyone about to do the same. The stories are English. This American edition adds, at the close of every chapter, what the same thing looks like in a United States court, and where the differences run in your favor.

With a foreword by the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury and a foreword to the American edition by James E. Miller, Managing Partner, Miller Shah LLP.