Sorry OTB, you've got this wrong. You say "The rules of evidence have evolved through continuous, rigorous examination by highly trained and disciplined legal minds", if only that were true.

The rules of evidence have been bent & mangled by the legal profession to make it easier to get their high paying clientele out of any trouble they have got themselves into.

When you have a judiciary who spent most of their careers touting for the business of criminals, is it surprising their sympathies lie with the criminal, rather than the victim, in so many cases?

The legal fraternity can't afford to have too many of the crims behind bars for too long. How are their regular clients going to generate new business for lawyers & judges, if they are in prision?

Susionline Indys efforts may make us all pay the price.
How many first look posters give us a miss after thinking we are all like that.
Thinking however is not a concern Indy seems to have

Hasbeen,

I don't disagree that the legal profession is often self-serving, that the self-regulation works against the public and that courts are notoriously inefficient.

Expect much more of the same as the many hundreds of over-supply of law graduates continues to flood the market and they and the entrepreneurial partners they work for open new fields of legal 'problems'. 'Gender', 'discrimination', and (residential) tenancy regulations have been 'beneficiaries' of the over-abundance of lawyers. The public wonder where their taxes disappear.

Fortunately I count numerous lawyers (and their fellow non-productive bandits, humanities academics) among my acquaintance, so fortunately I am never short of a glass of expensive wine, a try-out of the most recent Mercedes-AMG and clever, high-sounding rationalisations for enjoying same.

Teachers persist in telling girls to do law. How many more can the public service take? LOL

All professionals are self-serving.
You don't really think they did the free (HECS, they never repay it) degree in the first place because the cared about the proletarian cultures.
They did it for the money silly
That,s self service if I have ever seen it.
As far as Mr "I'm a serial sex offender" is concerned I am sure that he will come to a sticky end real soon.
He doesn't seem to realise that most people simply want him dead.

I almost forgot.
The judiciary is so far off this planet they qualify for astronaut status although they seem to thing God status is more appropriate.

Get together with a few others , organise a proper petiton & have it tabled in Parliament. Pressure them to change legislation. It does work if you bother to read up on how to do a petition.
First things first ask for punishment to reflect the severity of the crime. For a start that is.