Reddit mentions of Our Corrupt Legal System

The inquisitional legal system designed by napoleon used by most countries that didn't inherit their legal system from the British.

If you are interested in seeing just how bad out system is I would recommend reading

>Our Corrupt Legal System

by the brilliant Walkley Award-winning journalist Evan Whitton

>Whitton, who was a member of The Australian Media Hall of Fame, went on to win five Walkleys in total - in 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974 and 1975. In 1983 he was named the Melbourne Press Club's Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year for his coverage of the Street Royal Commission in NSW, also known as the Wran Royal Commission.

>In Melbourne, he uncovered allegations of police extortion at abortion clinics, coverage which led to the Kaye Inquiry and won him his 1970 Walkley Award.

>He left Truth for a brief stint at the Sunday Australian before joining Fairfax Media, first at the National Times as assistant editor and then editor, before moving to the Sydney Morning Herald as chief reporter in 1981.

>Known for his long-form, narrative journalism, Whitton dissected the Petrov Affair and the HMAS Voyager disaster, and also covered the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption in Queensland. He was also famous for his 26,000 word, three-part series on how Australia got into the Vietnam War.

>https://www.smh.com.au/national/walkley-award-winning-journalist-evan-whitton-dies-aged-90-20180717-p4zrvz.html

 

>Our Corrupt Legal System

>The lawyer-run adversary system used in Britain and its former colonies, including the US, India, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia does not try to find the truth. It is the only system which conceals evidence. 'Our Corrupt Legal System' explains why trial lawyers, famously economical with the truth, control evidence; civil hearings take weeks, months or years; in serious criminal cases, 24 anti-truth devices allow more than 50% of guilty accused to escape justice.

>By contrast, in the investigative system used in Europe and other countries, including Japan, trained judges control evidence and seek the truth; civil hearings take a few hours; 95% of guilty accused are convicted. It is the most widespread, accurate and cost-effective system. Russell Fox, an Australian judge who researched the law for 11 years, concluded: 'The public estimation must be correct, that justice marches with the truth.' The vast majority of voters will support change to a truthseeking system: trial lawyers are fewer than 0.2% of the population; the public are 99.8%. 'A masterpiece.' - Phillip Knightley, twice British Journalist of the Year.

 

Edit; The book is legally available for free as well


www.netk.net.au/whitton/ocls.pdf



>In a small nod to the public interest, the book can be downloaded free from netk.net.au/whitton/ocls.pdf, and extracts can be republished gratis. Also available from Amazon and books.google.com.au/ebooks.

>https://tasmaniantimes.com/2013/03/free-book-our-corrupt-legal-system-can-now-be-dowloaded-free/