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Family Law Act: too little, too late : Comments
By Patricia Merkin, published 7/12/2010It is likely that child protective amendments to the Family Law Act will be significantly watered down for political motives.
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Hahaha. I suppose they're usually too busy taking bribes from well-heeled self-employed fathers. You're really very funny.
cotter:"dismiss evidence often defying logic, and the transcripts of cases on Austlii are often 'cleansed'."
I do believe you're straying perilously close to contempt of the Court. Please do go on... oh hang on, you have.
cotter:"reading judgements that are different from what went on"
If you have evidence that the Court Reporting Service is systematically falsifying Court records, have you brought this evidence to the authorities? Having thought another couple of nanoseconds I reckon you're still full of it.
I know, you can tell us again about some fictitious child that features in your most lurid anti-male fantasies. I bet there isn't a transcript...
"Cotter, proudly making things up since 2005".
You must be proud.
cotter:" the jury - if there is one is already being told via the media that he might have been a paedophile, that will no doubt be repeated at trial. "
This is what is known as "evidence as to motive". It is intended to establish that a "mens rea" existed at the time of the killing. Mens rea means a "real intent" to commit the crime, rather than it being an accident or an unforeseen outcome of a lesser attack.
Think of it this way - because you habitually live in a state of neurotic fear of every man you encounter, there is no rson to believe that all or any of these men wish you to feel afraid or have done anything to make you feel afraid. The "mens rea" to make you afraid is absent - you're a victim of your own neurosis.