Fairness in Criminal Justice
Golden Threads and Pragmatic Patches
Series:
The Hamlyn Lectures;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 23 August 2018
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781108463157 |
ISBN10: | 11084631511 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 184 pages |
Size: | 216x138x10 mm |
Weight: | 240 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
In the 2016 Hamlyn Lectures, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Dame Sian Elias critiques recent changes in criminal justice systems.
Long description:
British criminal justice is a principal legacy of Empire in the common law world. It attempts fairness between prosecutors and accused in an accusatory system for establishing criminal responsibility supervised by a judge who is conspicuously detached from the fray. Fundamental features, today recognised as human rights, include the presumption of innocence and onus of proof, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the right to legal advice and representation. In these lectures, Dame Sian Elias examines modern challenges to this conception of criminal justice prompted by anxiety about crime and the costs and delays in proof of guilt. They include enlarged prosecutorial discretion in charging, incentivisation of early guilty pleas, adoption of reverse onuses of proof, application to criminal proceedings of principles of modern civil case management, and measures to bring the victim into the criminal justice system. The lectures question whether this repositioning risks the integrity of the system.
Table of Contents:
1. 'Fair and just?'; 2. Righting criminal justice; 3. 'The most important of all judicial functions'.