Sister in Law

'This is a book. Harriet is a trailblazer and has done so much to get justice for so many women.' - Victoria Derbyshire

' in equal measure. Everybody should read it.' - Professor Dame Sue Black, author of All That Remains

‘Every feminist should know Harriet Wistrich’s name. to learn from if you want to Get Shit Done.’ - Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women

'A account of her astonishing legal career fighting for women in a legal system that is all too often stacked against them' - Caroline Criado Perez





She has been at the forefront of some historic and ground-breaking legal victories, from helping the victims of taxi driver and serial rapist John Worboys, to representing a pioneering group of the women caught up in the ‘spy cops’ scandal – women deceived into forming long-term relationships with men later revealed to be undercover police officers.

Litigation can be a long and rocky path of pitfalls and dead ends and there are defeats as well as gains, hours of painstaking work as well as courtroom drama.

It takes collaboration, extraordinary tenacity and huge compassion, but Harriet Wistrich is proof that it is possible to demand better justice and to bring about important change.






Praise for Sister in Law:

‘Shocking,... from one of the foremost feminist human rights lawyers today' Keina Yoshida & Jen Robinson

'A brilliant lawyer. A ' - Baroness Helena Kennedy KC

'Harriet'scommitment to safeguarding basic rights, is compellingly set out in every chapter.' - Michael Mansfield KC

‘A account of cases in which the justice system has spectacularly failed women but also ofif only we know enough and care enough to do so.’ - Rt Hon Lady Hale DBE

'If I was ever in trouble, I would .' - Emeritus Professor David Wilson, author of My Life with Murderers