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| | Books | Fantasy nostrums |
 | | Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws knows a lot about the law, having practised at the Bar for 30 years. |
 | | In one of the most woebegone sections of her book, Baroness Kennedy QC paints an upsetting picture of the plight of Queen's Counsel: "The average criminal silk earns £170,000-£180,000. |
 | | Kennedy warns her readers "to be wary of rhetoric" but has failed to take her own advice in a book which she describes as "an alarm call" but which, for much of its length, is a prolonged rant. |
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