ABSTRACT
Presumed Guilty was the title of a book I wrote about the criminal justice system published in 1993. Its theme was the extent to which the system was subverted by an attitude of mind governed by traditional presumptions. At the time of writing it I was not to know that the mindset I was trying to expose would be revealed in even more detail by the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the subsequent public inquiry chaired by Sir William Macpherson.
