One minute you're taking a shot at me for criticising the failings of our legal system, and suggesting I go and live somewhere else if I don't like it.
Now you're agreeing with me that our legal system needs a complete overhaul!
Make up your mind.
I agree.
Alan Bond should have got 30,000 years according to YOUR calculations. Don't get me wrong I agree!
One of the stories on tonight's TV news was of a man who killed his partner because she refused to pick him up from the pub. He was so angry by the time he got home that he bashed and strangled her and left her for dead. She died as a result of her injuries.
So he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, right? Wrong!
OK, he got 20 years then? Wrong again! 10 years? No! 8 years? 6 years? 5 years? Hell no - our hero got 3 years in the slammer, that's right - 3 years for a brutal killing! And you can bet he'll be out much sooner if he behaves himself while he's in there.
As disgusted as I am at such a light sentence for this brutal crime, it wouldn't have surprised me if some smartarse lawyer had got him off scot free on a minor technicality. There are plenty of morally deficient lawyers who would do exactly that if given the chance, and all to often they find a loophole in our legal system to allow them to do it.
Earlier in this thread I was critical of incompetent judges and unscrupulous lawyers, and our legal system generally.
In response I got an idiotic post from some character who told me I should go and live in China if I didn't like our legal system.
And from some other character I got a response that was almost as silly, telling me that I was blaming judges and lawyers for the social failures.
Well I won't be going to China to live - I'll be staying right here and continuing to publicly criticise our pathetic legal system that all too often makes decisions and gives sentences that are an apology for justice. And I'll be continuing to pressure politicians to make changes so that the system starts doing what it's meant to do, which is punish criminals and get justice for the victims. There are too many cases these days where that's just not happening.
And no, I'm not blaming judges and lawyers for the social failures that lead to these crimes in the first place. But I'm certainly blaming incompetent judges and unscrupulous lawyers for fostering a nonchalant attitude towards the legal system by the more irresponsible members of the community.
One of the objectives of the legal system is to act as a deterrent to irresponsible and criminal behaviour. But what sort of deterrent is it when violent crime brings only light punishment, or in some cases no punishment at all?
Our legal system needs a complete overhaul - there are too many cases these days where it's just not achieving the objectives it was designed to achieve.
have you read the trial transcript?
Did the evidence get presented correctly?
Did the prosecution present their case correctly?
Was it a jury trial?
Do you only read head lines then decide its all broken?
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You need to read the transcript?
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Also it seems that the only way to fix the problem (if you were to follow the advice of some of the posters here) is to either execute the criminals or 'throw away the key' (neither of which are very helpful answers).
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Also if all keys instead of being thrown out were collected for recycling, we would have additional benefit.
(I get it, lawyers woud not have the same workload ($$$$$))
...Lawyers don't make the laws last time I checked? ...
Of course they don’t, they just find loopholes.
(As good example GLOVE comes to my mind from USA)
...(Working within the confines of the law)
Yes, I almost feel sorry for how constricted they are in this terrible confinement!
This sort of thing sickens me. It makes me so angry when irrefutable evidence is ignored and violent criminals receive no punishment at all.
It disgusts me that any lawyer, being fully aware of the video footage that proves the guilt of the offender, could be such a low life as to take on his case and do everything possible to get him acquitted.
I have nothing but contempt for lawyers who stoop to such depths.
Here's what you said.
It's about the admissibility of evidence. And the Evidence Act of the Commonwealth and each state don't just apply to criminal trials they also apply in a whole variety of civil litigation matters as well. Do you have just as much contempt for a lawyer successfully arguing an exception to the Evidence Act on a civil litigation matter standing up for the property rights of his client. Or do the precedents in such civil litigation matters only attract your dissatisfaction within the criminal jurisdiction of the courts???
The laws an ass bunyip. Get over it!
Hopefully this post wont be met with the usual abuse.
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