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    The Trials of Oz‚ The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson. The character is Richard Neville. ********************************************** They still send me Tharunka‚ the student newspaper of the Uni of New South Wales. I was its editor in 1963. It was confronting and radical then‚ and it still is today. Obviously‚ throughout my years at Oz‚ Tharunka’s influence was with me. The theme of this edition is free speech. How ironic! Nearly forty years ago Geoffrey reminded me that “free

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    construct the reader’s opinion. Geoffrey Robertson in The Justice Game crafts many textual elements in his book about the legal system‚ the cases and about himself. Other composers also set their own agenda‚ and these biases cannot be overlooked.For example‚ in the Trials of Oz Robertson exercises supreme authority to decide who is guilty or innocent. He uses language to describe the defendants as “honest young men” and to characterise Oz as a “harmless coffee-table magazine for the revolution that

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    The Trials of Oz the audience to draw ideas of biest and corruption of the legal system‚ as the judges are ignorant of the outside world youth‚ only take note of higher sources of knowledge‚ let cops do obscenity things just cuase they are cops‚ have very one sided views‚ would put someone in jail for a little small thing Though this view is only put across by roberston ‚ only his side of the story ‚ this is his oppion and view on the legal system and by putting across as untrustworthy

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    2011 Catholic Trial Feedback from marker: * First two sections need to be addressed more effectively * Question needs to be addressed more specifically ------------------------------------------------- More than anything else‚ conflicting perspectives are the result of bias or self-interest. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Respond to this statement through an analysis of the ways perspectives are represented in

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    the composer’s perspective. This has been achieved through my study of Geoffrey Robertson’s 1998 memoir The Justice Game‚ which discourages involving emotion in the justice system and suggests that the current system is effective‚ the conflicting 2013 7.30 Report episode “Jill Meagher’s husband calls her killer’s sentence a disgrace” which uses emotion to communicate the flaws in the justice system.‚ and the Michael Leunig 2013 cartoon Julian Assange from The Age‚ which supports Robertson’s view that

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    the fact that we use our language as a tool against truth‚ and this language is filled with kludges that block the existence of absolute truth. Geoffrey Robertson does the same when writing‚ adding his perspective To the prisoner of Venda. The justice game‚ being a non-fiction book‚ automatically causes us to see the content as truth. Robertson uses this medium to position himself on a level of superiority where he tells us‚ the readers‚ his perspective in such a way that we see it as a fact. This

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    go on without justice. Together‚ four major world powers unify and take course against a genocide felt throughout the world. The four powers come forth with the idea to hold a series of trials. After careful thought‚ America‚ France‚ Russia‚ and England chose Nuremberg to hold the trials. With a location set and a course of action‚ the powers now had to build their case in the Nuremberg Trials‚ a series of thirteen trials held with the purpose of bringing Nazi criminals to justice after WWII.

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    Nate Murphy Prof. Levin Intro to Law and Politics 3200-001 09-30-2013 On the Justice of Law Concerning War Criminals The clarity brought on by the past century’s globalization in both civil and military theatres has partially lifted the fog of war. Intra-state‚ ethno-culturally centered ongoing conflicts have yielded many of the most prolific cases of human rights violations in history‚ and thus have presented the world with the enigma of trying and sentencing these criminals without violating

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    Advanced English Telling The Truth Texts: The Justice Game (book) Bowling for Columbine (film) The Simpsons – Homer Badman (TV episode)?? Trials notes: • Further talk about Robertson’s civil rights agenda • Write in a way appropriate to text type – don’t rely on essay! If it’s a speech‚ address the audience often. General course notes: • All representations are tainted by perspective‚ bias‚ background‚ author’s intention‚ etc. • Truth cannot be represented with

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    The Nuremberg trials were trials that were supposed to bring Nazi’s to justice. The Nuremberg trials occurred during the years of 1945 and 1946. During this time World War II had just ended with the Allies’ victory and many cities in Europe were rebuilding themselves thanks to the war. The Nazi war criminals were under the jurisdiction of the Allied Powers (England‚ United States‚ Soviet Union‚ and France). The trial was consisted of “twenty-two major Nazi criminals”‚ however only twelve were sentenced

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