Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

Author: Desmond Manderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1136340467

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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning and legal certainty are too important to be dismissed, Desmond Manderson takes up the political and intellectual challenge they pose. Can the rule of law be re-configured in light of the critical turn of the past several years in legal theory, rather than being steadfastly opposed to it? Pursuing a reflection upon the relationship between law and the humanities, the book stages an encounter between the influential theoretical work of Jacques Derrida and MIkhail Bakhtin, and D.H. Lawrence's strange and misunderstood novel Kangaroo (1923). At a critical juncture in our intellectual history - the modernist movement at the end of the first world war - and struggling with the same problems we are puzzling over today, Lawrence articulated complex ideas about the nature of justice and the nature of literature. Using Lawrence to clarify Derrida’s writings on law, as well as using Derrida and Bakhtin to clarify Lawrence’s experience of literature, Manderson makes a robust case for 'law and literature.' With this framework in mind he outlines a 'post-positivist' conception of the rule of law - in which justice is imperfectly possible, rather than perfectly impossible.


Kangaroo Court

Kangaroo Court

Author: Lynette Styles

Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1925112942

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“Thank you for your gallant effort against John Rolf's subdivision. Please continue your support because we need people like you who will stand up and be counted. I realise that after the disgraceful behaviour on the part of some councillors it is extremely hard for you to do.” Barbara Webdell, Mt Hercules Road, Razorback These words, written to me in the aftermath of a public meeting, sustained me through the long, lonely days of persecution and marginalisation. It would have been so easy to relinquish my independence to avoid being cannibalised by zealots but I wasn’t prepared to compromise my integrity. I pledged my commitment to the community and I wasn’t breaking that promise to satisfy the powers within. This is a record of what went on behind closed doors and the reprisal I suffered at the hands of public officials on Wollondilly Shire Council over a four-year period between 1995 and 1999.


The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court

The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court

Author: Mmatshilo Motsei

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Inspired by rare strength and courage, this gripping narrative tells the story of a young woman--known variously as "Khwezi" and "the complainant"--who made a principled decision to lay a charge of rape against Jacob Zuma, a man who was a father-figure, a family friend, a comrade--and the deputy president of South Africa. She took on the fight against considerable odds, Zuma being one of the most popular and powerful political leaders of his time. Enduring prolonged public attacks, she listened to Zuma supporters chant "Burn the Bitch" outside the courtroom during her trial. Her accusers and the judge concurred that having worn a kanga that evening, the complainant had, like so many other women, "asked for it." Crushed and conquered by the mechanics of power, she was forced to flee into exile. By using the trial of Jacob Zuma as a mirror, this account reveals the hidden yet public forms of violence against women in their homes, marriages, and churches. Caught in the crossfire of the nation's political succession battle, this young woman refused to back down. Her story outlines the particular ways in which women can be subjugated by power, and by speaking out, she amplified the muffled screams of the countless victims of those who parade their authority in parliament, government, and religion.


Kangaroo Court

Kangaroo Court

Author: Mary O'Toole

Publisher: Australia in Print

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780333450321

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A kookaburra, possum, koala, emu, wombat, and platypus all testify in the kangaroo court that a terrible monster is coming.


A Kangaroo Court: A Triumph of Mediocrity

A Kangaroo Court: A Triumph of Mediocrity

Author: Shankar N. Kashyap

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-02-24

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781797945804

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This is a story one Doctor's struggle against a regulatory body. This has trials and tribulations faced by him and his family over a period of six years. It has the love and faith of friends. Story of one man's fight against a bureaucratic organisation. How a man faces his nemesis and fights amidst adversity. Destruction of one man's life and the battle to regain what was lost. Lot of advice for those everyone working for a service organisation.A must read for anyone in a similar situation in their life.


The Vaccine Court

The Vaccine Court

Author: Wayne Rohde

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1632201690

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A hard look at the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the families desperately trying to navigate their way through it. The Vaccine Court looks at the mysterious and often unknown world of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), the only recourse for seeking compensation for those who have been injured by a vaccine. The NVICP, better known as the ”Vaccine Court,” however, is not without controversy. Established by Congress as a direct result of the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the NVICP was supposed to offer a no-fault alternative to the traditional injury claims filed in state or federal courts and was to provide quick, efficient, and fair compensation for those who have been injured by vaccines. The reality, however, is that many cases take several years or longer to complete and require tremendous commitment from families already pushed to the brink of bankruptcy caring for the vaccine-injured family member, only to discover that the end result is manipulated by the government in defense of the US vaccine policy. Mr. Rohde looks into the inner workings of the US Federal Claims Court and the NVICP. He interviews families who have filed petitions and won compensation, families who have been denied compensation, and families still waiting for a decision. By highlighting the journeys of these families—their efforts to find attorneys willing to represent them, the filing of their petitions, and the subsequent mountain of paperwork, medical records, and other documents that span years—Mr. Rohde exposes the bitter truth behind the NVICP. Through his thoughtful interviews and fact-finding research, The Vaccine Court sheds light on how the NVICP has evolved into something far more treacherous than what Congress envisioned with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986.


The Trial of Joan of Arc

The Trial of Joan of Arc

Author:

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0674038681

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No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her trial in 1431. Convened at Rouen and directed by bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial culminated in Joan's public execution for heresy. The trial record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words, unveils her life, character, visions, and motives in fascinating detail. Here is one of our richest sources for the life of a medieval woman. This new translation, the first in fifty years, is based on the full record of the trial proceedings in Latin. Recent scholarship dates this text to the year of the trial itself, thereby lending it a greater claim to authority than had traditionally been assumed. Contemporary documents copied into the trial furnish a guide to political developments in Joan's career—from her capture to the attempts to control public opinion following her execution. Daniel Hobbins sets the trial in its legal and historical context. In exploring Joan's place in fifteenth-century society, he suggests that her claims to divine revelation conformed to a recognizable profile of holy women in her culture, yet Joan broke this mold by embracing a military lifestyle. By combining the roles of visionary and of military leader, Joan astonished contemporaries and still fascinates us today. Obscured by the passing of centuries and distorted by the lens of modern cinema, the story of the historical Joan of Arc comes vividly to life once again.


Show Trials

Show Trials

Author: George H. Hodos

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1987-11-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Pp. 83-91 discuss the Slansky trial (1952) and its antisemitic aspects, accompanied by the author's personal notes. Rudolf Slansky (1901-1952), a Jew and secretary-general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and fourteen leading party members (eleven of whom were Jews) were prosecuted for conspiring against the state. They were seen as Zionist activists and agents of imperialist Israel. The Jewish descent of the defendants was constantly stressed. Slansky and ten others were hanged in December 1952; the other three were sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial formed a direct link with the Doctors' Plot in the Soviet Union. Hodos himself, a Hungarian Jew, was tried in Hungary in 1954 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Includes information on similar trials in Poland, Romania, East Germany, and Bulgaria.