She can usually be found prosecuting, or even presiding over, criminal cases.
But the tables were turned on high-flying barrister Constance Briscoe as she was sued by her mother over claims she was abused as a child.
Miss Briscoe, one of the first black women to sit as a judge in Britain, made the allegations in her ‘misery memoir’ entitled Ugly, which became a hit after it was published two years ago.
