perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
I’ve been a little lost for words lately. I’ve always used this blog as part-catharsis, and I have to get this post out. I’m also going to stick the post under a cut, as a possible trigger warning, just in case.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
Earlier this week, the ACT finally had its first female Senior Counsel appointed, in Canberra barrister Louise Donohue. It’s an appointment that is drastically overdue. I’m not exactly celebrating, however. We’ve got a very long way to go, and a disgraceful miscarriage of justice of a rape case that went down this week illustrates that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that our means of appointing judges -whereby the say-so of a state Attorney-General is enough to put someone on a Supreme Court - is just not good enough. In the last day, I’ve come across two cases of men being appointed to high judicial office who shouldn’t be getting anywhere near […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008
I wrote a couple of months ago about the bizarre and controversial appointment of Hilary Penfold, a right-wing idealogue with no judicial experience, to the ACT Supreme Court over the strong protests of the Bar Assocation and much of the legal community.
The ACT government, for reasons evident to no one but themselves, went ahead and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
From today’s Age comes the latest example of male members of the judiciary who can simply not be trusted to hear sexual assault cases:
Victorian County Court Judge Michael Kelly was accused of making insensitive comments during a case against Dean Woodbridge, whom he sentenced last December to two years and nine months’ jail, wholly suspended […]