Enjoy a Talk and have Lunch with leading criminal barrister and author Harry Potter.
We can choose from various venues to book you in including Inner Temple and the Law Society, and have Harry talk and discuss his time within the criminal justice system.
We also use the Ye Olde London pub, round the corner from the Old Bailey in Ludgate Hill.
Please call 07866690618 or email: info@oldbaileyinsight.co.uk for further information.
Below are some further details about the barrister
Harry Potter is a criminal defence barrister , a former fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge, says his famous name has been a distinct advantage. He has represented clients in all areas of crime, including court martials. He is a published author of several books on legal and Scottish history and his latest book on the history of prisons will shortly be published. He has worked for the BBC presenting a TV series on our legal system and a documentary on capital punishment. He is also a qualified Church of England priest and for eight years was a prison chaplain attending many lifer review hearings. He believes that too many people are jailed and for too long. He regularly lectures on the death penalty, criminal justice and prisons.
Harry Potter is an accomplished author as well as having his own series on the BBC, below are two of his books and a link to the series:
Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law
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“Full of triumphs, tragedies, comedies, accidents and unintended consequences [with] an immense cast of characters. … [A] lively and opinionated book.” (TIMES)
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HANGING IN JUDGMENT. Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition.
“This is undoubtedly the best overall view of the history of capital punishment and its slow decline between the Bloody Code and the 1960s.”
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