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Setting The Table Doesn't Mean The Guests Will Come To Dinner: Televised Courts In Australia, Jane Johnston May 2005

Setting The Table Doesn't Mean The Guests Will Come To Dinner: Televised Courts In Australia, Jane Johnston

Jane Johnston

The Australian courts are entering their second decade of experimentation with televised court proceedings. Yet, the process has been slow and largely unfulfilling for both the courts and the television networks. Developments in this field, compared to other countries, notably the United States, Canada and New Zealand, have progressed only on an ad hoc basis. A preliminary study indicates that the management in television newsrooms, notably news directors, have not been proactive in gaining camera access in any systematic or unified way. Indeed, the courts have argued: “we got the table set but nobody came to dinner”. In contrast, the …


The New Aba Jury Trial Standards: "Innovations" Go Mainstream?, Nancy Marder Jan 2005

The New Aba Jury Trial Standards: "Innovations" Go Mainstream?, Nancy Marder

Nancy S. Marder

No abstract provided.


The Jury As "Free School" For Democracy, Nancy Marder Jan 2005

The Jury As "Free School" For Democracy, Nancy Marder

Nancy S. Marder

No abstract provided.


The Medical Malpractice Debate: The Jury As Scapegoat (Symposium), Nancy S. Marder Jan 2005

The Medical Malpractice Debate: The Jury As Scapegoat (Symposium), Nancy S. Marder

Nancy S. Marder

No abstract provided.


America Meets The Justices: Explaining The Supreme Court To The General Reader, Laura Ray Dec 2004

America Meets The Justices: Explaining The Supreme Court To The General Reader, Laura Ray

Laura K. Ray

Curiosity about the Justices of the Supreme Court has increased dramatically since the New Deal era, when Americans first became aware of how directly the Court’s decisions affected their lives. That interest is reflected in three books about the Court written for a general audience, all of them provoking controversy and attracting substantial numbers of readers. In 1936 Washington columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen published The Nine Old Men, a partisan attack on the conservative members of the Court as political actors driven by their individual attitudes rather than by the law. Over forty years later, investigative journalists …


Njc Deskbook On Evidence For Administrative Law Judges, Chris Mcneil Dec 2004

Njc Deskbook On Evidence For Administrative Law Judges, Chris Mcneil

Christopher B. McNeil, J.D., Ph.D.

Provides summaries of frequently-encountered evidence rules, with checklists for ALJs and others working in administrative adjudications.