Through the Distorted Lens : Constructing Truth and Reality with Legal Narratives (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

What Do We See and Hear?..........................................................
The Power of Narratives…………………………………………….
Story Construction……………………………………………………
The Legal Narrative…………………………………………

CHAPTER 1
Construction of Language and Facts: Illusion or Reality in The Courtroom?
Evidentiary Terminology and Concepts……………………………………………..
Relevance ……………………………………
Rules of Exclusions……………………
The Presumption of Innocence…………………………………
Burden of Proof …………………………………………..
Fact-finding and Proof……………………..
R v Dawson…………….
Pell v The Queen…………….
Depp v Heard…………….


CHAPTER 2
Rituals, Practice and Procedure: The Truth, the Whole Truth, Anything but the Truth
Legal Rituals and Power…………………….
Oaths and Affirmations…………………
Judge or Jury?..........................
The Church, its Rituals and the Sexual Complainant
Pell v R…………………………..
Purpose of Appellate Courts……………….
The Robes …………………………………………….

Courtroom Distancing………………….

CHAPTER 3

Constructing the Defendant: The Three Faces of Eve

Mad, Bad & Sad……………………………
Translation as a means to produce meaning………………….
Women Who Kill……………………………………..
Letby v Rex………………………
Motherhood……………………………………..
An Emerging Linguistic Science on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome………….
Baby Killer and Evidential Rules…………………………..
a) United Kingdom
R v Trupti………………..
R v Clark……………….
R v Cannings……………..
R v Anthony……………..
b) Australia
R v Phillips……………..
R v Mathey……………..
R v Kathleen Folbigg…………..
Constructing a mad, bad, mother
The Male Image…………..
The Diaries……………….
A Literal Translation………….

Male Child Killers……….
a) United States
Robert Leslie Robertson III v Texas………..
b) Australia
The Queen v Robert Farquharson…………

Coincidence Reasoning………………………………….
Mothers and Mothering…………………………………………….
Australia: R v Kathleen Folbigg
R v Phillips
UK: R v Clark
R v Cannings
R v Anthony
USA:
The Male Image……………………………………………………..
Lost in Translation…………………………………………………
Narratives in Sexual Complainant Trials……………………………


CHAPTER 4

Expanding the Intersectional Approach ? from priest to movie stars

Intersectionality of the Defendant……………………………..
The Power of Questioning………………………………………………..
The Sexual Complainant…………………………………………
Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Ltd…………………
What is seen, heard or perceived?…………….
The Movie Star………………………………….
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard……………………….
Race
Flowers v States……………………..
George Floyd………
Changing Sides ? The Duality of the Mask………………..
Lawyer X…………………………..

Transgender and Bias……………………………………

Tickle v Giggle for Girls………………………………………

Social Platforms and Media Narratives: A Picture Paints a Thousand Words……………………………

CHAPTER 5

New Linguistic Interpretations and Narratives

Science and Knowledge……………………………………………..
Assumptions about the Unknown…………………………………..
Australia: R v Folbigg…………………
Human Error or Incompetence?.....................................................
Canada: Dr Charles Smith………………………………………..
Debunking the Junk Science……………………………………..
Reconstruction Evidence - The Queen v Robert Farquharson………
Memory Science - Pell v The Queen…………………..
DNA Exonerations - Ronnie Wallace Long……………………

Digital and Virtual Reality……………………………..
Court Recordings ? Depp v Heard
The Podcast ? R v Dawson
Newspapers ? George Floyd
Television - Pell v The Queen
Text Messaging ? Lucy Letby

From the Micro to the Macro…………………………………………………..
Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation……………..
George Floyd………….
Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Ltd…………………
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard……………..

CHAPTER

Developing A Different Dialogue

Understanding the Lens Through Which We See ……………………………..

The Requirement of Certainty……

The Process of Generalisations to the Particular……

Culturally Gendered Perceptions in Allocating Blame…….

Social Media is the New Communicator…………
Jurors………..

The Power of the Post-Structural Feminist lens

BIBLIOGRAPHY……

INDEX ……………………