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Our criminal justice system is a collection of irreducible rights, designed to avoid convictions of the innocent. And it should never be corrupted to achieve the political purpose of increasing conviction statistics. The Sexual Violence Bill will certainly lock up more “perpetrators”, by allowing even more unjustified trials and by jailing even more innocent men. Parliament should vote it down.
Looking back on the whole journey, it seems like a horrible movie script. How I wish it was just a…
Evidence of complete vaccination or a Covid pre travel -test plus quarantine for 14 days should be a conditon of travelling to our country.
It’s true. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
It’s time to try THC on our 7 year old.
Some experiences are so traumatic that they transform lives, and those who live through them deserve to be called ‘survivors’….
I will never forget the screams of my son, when they decided he was guilty. The cries of my daughter in law, the look on my husband’s face, I was in complete shock. If all the evidence was allowed to be heard, we would never be in this predicament. Leaving court that day without my son is a pain that rattled me to my core and will haunt me for the rest of my life.
The Sexual Violence Bill, currently before Parliament, looks to increase convictions by effectively revoking the defendant’s right to silence, and prohibiting types of evidence tending to indicate innocence. As an academic, qualified forensic physician, and expert witness in sexual cases (for both sides), I am concerned by the rationale for this bill.
Thanks for your engagement with my America’s Cup post the other day. I saw a couple of comments raising the…
Grant Dalton may think $100 million is not enough to pay for his boat and his sailors but it’s about 400,000 hardship grants to families on the poverty line.