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 .