Back to blogging ... it's been a busy couple of weeks with my exhibition opening at Mosman Art Gallery ... and I've started sitting in on some evidence classes to brush up my rusty knowledge.
A bit of late night reading last night: H.L. Ho A Philosophy of Evidence Law: Justice in the Search for Truth Oxford University Press 2008. Pages 81-84: some interesting comments referencing the work of Raimond Gaita who speaks of justice in terms of humanity rather than fairness, empathy in justice and the recognition of the accused as a human being (Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice London: Routledge, 2000, 81). Markus Dirk Dubber is quoted as writing that even a psychopath 'does not deserve to be disposed of as a mere object.' (Dubber, The Sense of Justice - Empathy in Law and Punishment (NY: NYU Press, 101).
Some useful references for my research and the impact of video technologies in criminal proceedings.
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