Summary Justice Fairfax John
Summary Justice Fairfax John The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He'd said he was innocent. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the…
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Summary Justice Fairfax John
The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He'd said he was innocent. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder.
That night she walks back into Benson's life. She'd believed him.Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of hacks mocking a newcomer to the London Bar, a no-hoper with a murder conviction, running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields. The price of his rehabilitation - and access to the Bar - is an admission of guilt to the killing of Paul Harbeton, whose family have vowed revenge.
He's an outcast. The government wants to shut him down and no solicitor will instruct him. But he's subsidised by a mystery benefactor and a desperate woman has turned to him for help: Sarah Collingstone, mother of a child with special needs, accused of slaying her