Wendy joseph kc

Wendy Joseph KC’s first appearance at the Petworth Literary Festival in 2023 was both one of the highlights of that memorable year and a sell out event. She returns having published a second in-depth study of the fallible and fragile nature of our justice system. In Rough Justice she reconstructs four gripping courtroom dramas, drawing on her many years’ experience as a murder trial judge to ask whether our justice system works. As she compares these modern courtroom tales with eerily similar cases and miscarriages of justice from years ago, might the most chilling story of all be that the lessons of the past have yet to be learned?