Putting Trials on Trial : Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession / Elaine Craig.
2018
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Title
Putting Trials on Trial : Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession / Elaine Craig.
Imprint
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Description
1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Sexual Assault and the Legal Profession
Pendulum Swings and Matriarchal Justice: Debunking Defence Counsel Myths
A Kinder and Gentler Approach? Interrogating the Heroes of the Defence Bar
The Sexual Assault Lawyer's Justice Project
The Role of the Crown in Sexual Assault Trials
Judging Sexual Assault Trials
Judicial Error in Sexual Assault Cases
We Owe a Responsibility ...
Notes
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Sexual Assault and the Legal Profession
Pendulum Swings and Matriarchal Justice: Debunking Defence Counsel Myths
A Kinder and Gentler Approach? Interrogating the Heroes of the Defence Bar
The Sexual Assault Lawyer's Justice Project
The Role of the Crown in Sexual Assault Trials
Judging Sexual Assault Trials
Judicial Error in Sexual Assault Cases
We Owe a Responsibility ...
Notes
Index
Summary
Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded.In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily - and sometimes unlawfully - contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers' public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that - despite prominent contestations - complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations.In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.
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In English.
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9780773553002
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