My Life in Crime

<p><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>After a year in practice I received a brief to defend a youth accused with his friend of manslaughter. There are times when a chance event changes the course of one's life. This was my event. Although unaware at the time I was about to embark on a life of crime.</em><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>In a career spanning five decades barrister prosecutor judge and corruption commissioner John McKechnie AO KC has seen up close how the law touches the lives of us all.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>In this engaging and entertaining memoir McKechnie takes readers on a tour of his distinguished career and explores the criminal cases big and small that have stayed with him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>McKechnie also includes his compilation of bite-sized 'quirky cases' historical excursions into moments of legal and personal interest - all written with humour and above all great humanity.</span></p><p></p>