I must say that I view with mixed reactions the Government’s pledge to end cross examination of domestic violence victims by their alleged abusive (ex) partners. The arguments on both sides have been extensively and well-rehearsed. In the blue corner is the Government’s recognition that such questioning, in effect amounts to the victims being re-victimised. […]
If ever evidence was needed to prove that our justice system has well and truly broken, 2 recent news items have provided it. It seems as though the days of alleged criminals being pursued diligently by our ‘boys in blue’ have disappeared, for the time being at least. A recent news item, bore the disturbing […]
A recent case has highlighted, the injustice bordering on madness, of restricted Legal Aid. A couple who had erroneously been granted a divorce by a District Judge, both got married to new partners, only to find themselves ‘branded as bigamists’. The Court’s administrative error, was due to the fact that the hapless District Judge had […]
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