The reluctance to use written legal documentation isn’t primarily rooted in Confucian values, as scholars have commonly argued. It’s a response to structural inequality.
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Australians could once claim compensation for injuries arising from a broken engagement. Today, the responsibility for romantic injury has been individualised and feminised, its pain trivialised.
A new book by journalist Louise Milligan exposes the brutality of many witnesses’ encounters with the criminal trial process.. It is informed, too, by her own experience of cross-examination.
Stopping people from talking about their unwanted thoughts may have a terrible impact on them and on society.
The Crown said this case was an example of the worst type of murder, but the judge disagreed, arguing the killer, when freed, would be less of a threat to the wider community than some other killers.
And yet it’s still technically legal in the UK.
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