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Whose News About Justice? [Review Essay], Mark Findlay
Whose News About Justice? [Review Essay], Mark Findlay
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Review of two books: Whose News About Justice? Nicholas Cowdery (2001), Getting Justice Wrong, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, ISBN 1865083224 & Jock Collins, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting & Paul Tabar (2001), Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime, Pluto Press, Sydney, ISBN 1864031131.
Juror Comprehension And Complexity: Strategies To Enhance Understanding, Mark Findlay
Juror Comprehension And Complexity: Strategies To Enhance Understanding, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Recent law reform debate proposes the complexity of trials as generally reducing juror comprehension. This in turn is said to impact on the accuracy of the verdict. The empirical studies of three very different jury systems examined in detail in the paper challenge these assumptions against problematic measures of complexity. Critics of the jury, particularly in commercial fraud trials, often take the issue of trial complexity as a given. The studies demonstrate that features of the trial which trouble jurors in terms of concentration, comprehension and decision making are consistent, while often specific to the trial and interrelated. The paper …
Synthesis In Trial Procedures? The Experience Of The International Criminal Tribunals, Mark Findlay
Synthesis In Trial Procedures? The Experience Of The International Criminal Tribunals, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Critical to analysing the recent synthesis of criminal trialprocedures is an understanding of the internationalisation of criminal law andprocedure. As well as the creation of international tribunals to investigateand try crimes of world significance, there is emerging an internationaljurisprudence on criminal law (and procedural hybrids to support and developthis) which require integrated analysis.