The trial of the former shock jock on indecent assault and sexual touching charges is taking place without a jury and in a closed court. Here’s why.
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The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
Both the prosecutors and Patterson herself are continuing legal action, but for very different reasons. They could extend the case, or come to nothing at all.
Supreme Court justices voted 4-1 to convict former Brazilian president over a 2023 plot to overturn election.
Colonialism criminalised local knowledge systems.
The reality of drone-assisted health care may be closer than we think.
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
The ruling in a Paris court that the far-right leader is guilty of misappropriating public funds will probably eliminate her from the 2027 presidential election.
Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.
In criminal trials, a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing the opening arguments from lawyers.
In one of the biggest legal sagas of recent times, Justice Michael Lee has delivered his verdict. What did he say?
Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred.
Just days before Justice Michael Lee was due to pass down his judgment, Network 10 threw another spanner in the works.
The right to a fair trial means cutting the funding of cultural reports will simply shift the burden. Lawyers will find other ways to put the same information before a judge.
The retired judge says the judiciary doesn’t ‘do justice’ but follows the law and the facts, which doesn’t always mean a sympathetic or compassionate ending.
The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
Sexual assault trials can compound a victim/survivors trauma, drag on for years and bring them face to face with their attacker. Is having dedicated sexual assault courts the answer?
What can President Trump and his lawyers say about documents and witness statements used as evidence in his upcoming trial over his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election?
A criminal trial is a venue where not only individual police officers accused of crimes are put under public scrutiny, but so too are the training and tactics that officer received.
Whereas ‘the camera sees everything, but captures nothing,’ courtroom artists can channel the emotional highs and lows of a trial through a single image.
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