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Feb082013

Jailing jurors who seek the truth

• DateFriday, February 8, 2013

Trial process trumps the search for truth ... Jurors promise to give a true verdict ... Lawyers and judges don't have to make promises about the "truth" ... The Theodora Dallas case and online research by jurors ... The confines of the adversarial criminal justice system ... Tulkinghorn opines 

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Sep032010

Tulk would hire Kirby at the Pearly Gates

• DateFriday, September 3, 2010

Michael Kirby swaps horses on our justice system ... When it operates, it operates very well ... How often might that be? ... Former High Court judge says there are not enough lawyers in politics ... Tulkinghorn thinks Kirby might have lost it

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