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Rape Trials, Medical Texts And The Threat Of Female Speech, Julia Quilter
Rape Trials, Medical Texts And The Threat Of Female Speech, Julia Quilter
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Despite more than three decades of law reform, debate and scholarship designed to improve the legal response to rape, reporting rates remain low, attrition rates high, conviction rates low and conviction appeals in sexual assault matters have one of the highest rates of success (Kelly, Lovett & Regan 2005; Fitzgerald 2006; Daly and Bourhous 2010; Brown et al 2015). Furthermore, dissatisfaction with the criminal justice system remains a key issue for victims of sexual assault (Clark 2010; Daly 2011). This dilemma led Penny Pether to state: But all the speech and the writing, the scholarship and the legislation and the …
Where Could The 9/11 Terrorist Trials Go Next?, Gregory L. Rose, Anthony Bergin
Where Could The 9/11 Terrorist Trials Go Next?, Gregory L. Rose, Anthony Bergin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The criminal trials of the 9/11 terrorists may finally be coming to the punch line. Last Friday, the criminal trial of the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, together with four others commenced in the Military Commission at Guantánamo Bay.
Yet this might be another variation on previous suspended prosecutions. In February 2008, criminal charges were first pressed against Khalid Sheik and his alleged co-conspirators in the Military Commission under the administration of president George W Bush. The trial began in June 2008. Five months later the accused indicated that they would plead guilty.
In January 2009, …