"I should have said in the UK and US, we have an adversary legal system. It probably sounds cynical, but at heart the legal system is not, fundamentally, about uncovering the truth but about whether (a) the prosecution's argument is solid and (b) that all due process has been followed"

I could wish that my own evaluation of our legal system didn't tend to be more cynical than that a lot of the time. I fear that the point is often which of the adversaries can score more career points by any manipulative tactics available.