{"product_id":"2026200014363-secondhand-settled-out-of-court","title":"Settled Out Of Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the law becomes a game played by those who know all its loopholes? Settled out of Court by Henry Cecil is a wickedly comic legal thriller set in mid-20th century Britain, following a cast of morally ambiguous characters who find themselves entangled in a web of courtroom manoeuvrings, private settlements, and gentlemanly deception. At its centre is a cunning plot in which a convicted man, released from prison, sets out to blackmail those whose perjury put him behind bars — only to find that justice, in Cecil's world, is a far more slippery and entertaining beast than any rulebook could contain.\n\nCecil, himself a practising barrister and County Court judge writing under a pen name, brings an insider's razor-sharp wit to a narrative that is as legally astute as it is gloriously absurd. His prose is brisk, urbane, and laced with the kind of dry English humour that made Brothers in Law a beloved classic, and Settled out of Court upholds that distinguished tradition with equal panache. A master of the comic legal novel, Cecil illustrates how the machinery of British justice can be at once magnificent and magnificently ridiculous — leaving the reader to wonder whether the courtroom or the conscience is the true seat of judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161030336731,"sku":"2026200014363-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8346d632-ddcc-4ba1-aa19-2ef08541c8d0.png?v=1787189416","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014363-secondhand-settled-out-of-court","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}