| Description |
xiv, 309 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: Justice behind the scenes. -- Introduction / Rosalind F. Croucher -- Chapter One. View from the inside: the Sexual and Violent Offences Legislation Amendment Act 2008 / Jessica Kennedy and Patricia Eastal -- Chapter Two. The relavance of Aboriginality in sentencing: findings from interviews in the ACT / Christina Lewis, Anthony Hopkins and Lorana Bartels -- Chapter 3. Sentencing statistics, sentencing councils and the quest for data in the Australian Capital Territory / Lorana Bartels. -- -- Part II: Discrimination, workplaces and justice. -- Introduction / Helen Watchirs -- Chapter Four. Media reportage of sexual harassment: the (in)credible complainant / Keziah Judd and Patricia Easteal -- Chapter Five. Sexual harassment "survival" behaviours and workplace thinking in rural Australia / Skye Saunders and Patricia Easteal -- Chapter Six. Family violence, employment and anti-discrimination law: the challenge for law reform / Amanda Alford -- Chapter Seven. Regulation, disclosure and voluntary genetic profiling / Wendy Bonython and Bruce Baer Arnold. -- -- Part III: Judicial principles, pragmatism and proportionality. -- Introduction: The Hon. Michael Kirby -- Chapter Eight. Law, cultural exceptionalism and the body / Bruce Baer Arnold, Wendy Bonython and Skye Masters -- Chapter Nine. The Mount Rennie Rape Case of 1886: politics, mercy and justice / Wendy Kukulies-Smith and Susan Priest. -- -- Part IV: Justice in a comparative context. -- Introduction / Margaret Thornton -- Chapter Ten. Natural resources, corruption and the rule of law: a case study of Solomon Islands / Tony Krone -- Chapter Eleven. Religious influence over arbitral proceedings: personalising or jeopardising justice / Dalma Demeter and Thilini Perera -- Chapter Twelve. Environmental justice in a comparative context / Mirjana Drenovak-Ivanovic -- Conclusion / Lorraine Walker |
| Summary |
Former High Court judge of Australia, the Hon Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, in addressing the symposium that has evolved into this book, stressed the need for vigilance in the pursuit and protection of justice. Justice Connections is evidence of such vigilance.The book is a veritable smorgasbord of subjects - violence against women, Indigenous people, sentencing, genetic profiling, cultural exceptionalism, arbitral proceedings and environmental law.However, certain themes are constant. The notion of respect for the individual and their personal characteristics underpins the analyses in the book. Accordingly, a number of contributors examine the need to recognise and protect the potentially vulnerable in society. There is recognition too of the significance of the public interest and public participation in just policy and decision-making. Whilst the principle of the rule of law is a constant in civilised society another message of the book is that its form is very much an evolving beast. Furthermore, the book illustrates that justice is not synonymous with law, but more, as Professor Margaret Thornton concludes, 'a performative idea that is played out differently in different sites by different actors' |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Justice -- Rule of law -- Australia
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Justice, Administration of -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Justice, Administration of -- Australia.
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Rule of law -- Australia -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Easteal, Patricia, editor
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| ISBN |
1443847313 (hardback) |
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9781443847315 (hardback) |
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