The Secret Barrister

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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An unusual episode of Full Disclosure: one in which the identity of our guest is not revealed. No name, no gender, no details about where they grew up or went to school. The Secret Barrister is a criminal lawyer, best-selling author and Twitter stalwart. Their latest book, Nothing but the Truth attempts to establish why the public at large thinks what it does about justice and explores why a young Secret Barrister was so ready to believe the prevailing stereotypes about lefty lawyers and liberal judges.

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0:38.3	Hello, and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast podcast podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed chiefly to let me spend
0:43.7	more time with interesting people than I could ever dream of spending with them on the
0:48.2	radio show.
0:48.9	But this week's edition is rather different, not least because you're not going to hear
0:52.8	the name of the person that I'm interviewing. And by the time these words reach you, you won't be hearing their actual
0:59.1	voice either. They will be voiced by an actor, not because it's an international criminal whose
1:04.3	identity needs to be protected, quite the opposite, actually. It's a renowned lawyer whose identity
1:08.9	needs to be protected protected and that's probably
1:11.8	given it away somewhat. And we have elected a male actor at random. We literally tossed a coin to
1:17.6	see whether we would get a masculine or feminine voice. Secret barrister, welcome to full disclosure.
1:23.8	Thank you, James. Why does your identity need to be protected? So when I started writing about
1:28.7	seven years ago now, I decided that anonymity was important because I wanted to talk about
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