Sentences with phrase «protecting vulnerable witnesses»

David Burrows explores how courts strive to balance the search for justice with protecting vulnerable witnesses

He says that while there is a case for protecting vulnerable witnesses, a situation can not be allowed to develop in this country whereby people are liable to be convicted where they can not effectively challenge the case against them.

The report notes that throughout the original trial, «Justice Camp made comments or asked questions evidencing an antipathy towards laws designed to protect vulnerable witnesses, promote equality, and bring integrity to sexual assault trials.

-LSB-...] Justice Camp made comments or asked questions evidencing an antipathy towards laws designed to protect vulnerable witnesses, promote equality, and bring integrity to sexual assault trials.

Among other things, it's alleged Camp made comments that «reflected an antipathy» toward laws meant to protect vulnerable witnesses, engaged in «stereotypical or biased thinking» and asked the complainant questions that relied on «discredited, stereotypical assumptions» of how one should behave following a sexual assault.

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We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

It is important that judges and lawyers are trained to apply PD12J so the process is fair and vulnerable witnesses are protected.