LAWS398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Counterpoint, Dietrich V The Queen, County Court Of Victoria
3 Aug 2020
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American metaphoric critiques involve a use of dramaturgical or game imagery. The uk analyses sentencing patterns, availability of legal aid, bailing procedures contributed to current concern for improvement. Argues the staging of magistrates" justice in itself infuses the proceedings with a surrealism which atrophies defendant"s ability to participate in them. All the paraphernalia of social occasions are both immediately and documentarily indexed with consequential social meanings. The spacing and placing of people on public occasions is strategic to their ability to participate effectively in them. In the courtroom spatial dominance is achieved by structural elevation and the magistrate sits raised up from the rest of the court. The court experience is characterised by long periods of waiting unpunctuated by any official explanations about the cause of the delays. Once he is in the distraught state of mind where he just wants to get it over judicial fears that the defendant might slow down the proceedings by being awkward" are diminished.
