The phrase comes straight from the courtroom, where it is used to justify a decision that needs justifying. Taking it as a title, as Martha Byrne does, sets the expectation of an account written from inside the machinery rather than observed from the public gallery.
Our catalogue keeps the filing simple: biography and memoir, with no second shelf softening it. That singular classification usually means a life story with a clear spine, and at thirteen hours there is room to follow a case, or a career’s worth of them, all the way through to the verdict.
Anything not contained in the work itself falls outside what we can responsibly say.