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Interpreting and Markers in Nigerian Courtroom Discourse

Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
It has already been affirmed that power and control embedded in questions varies according to question type (Luchjenbroers 1999, Rigney 1999 etc). The paper ranges question types according to their degree of control and observes that those with high degree of control lost their power and control through the process of interpreting.
Farinde Raifu Olanrewaju, Oyedokun Alli, Wasiu Ademola   +2 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

A New Lens: Reframing the Conversation about the Use of Video Conferencing in Civil Trials in Ontario

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2012
The state of courtroom technology in Ontario is increasingly capturing the attention of both the public and the legal profession. This article seeks to contribute to the conversation on this issue by focusing on one particular technology in Ontario’s ...
Amy Salyzyn
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan, Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady   +1 more
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Atrocity Speech Law, by Gregory S. Gordon

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2018
Theoretical developments in the law are interesting things: They exist solely as ideals waiting to be actualized, but because the law is one of those fields where academic discourse regularly has a meaningful impact on courtrooms and legislatures, they ...
Sam Zucchi
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Declaratives and Control in Nigerian Courtroom Discourse

English Language and Literature Studies, 2015
This paper attempts to provide an explanatory account of linguistic communication between legal professionals such as lawyers and prosecutors, and the witnesses, with a view to show the power and control prevalent in the courtroom discourse. Making use of 20-hours of audio-tape cases recorded at the High Court of Justice and Magistrate Court in Nigeria
Raifu Olanrewaju Farinde, Johnson Oludare Ojo, Yemi Ogunsiji   +2 more
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leaving no room for doubt and exceptions: closing arguments through the lens of metadiscourse

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación
The closing argument in criminal trials allows for unique metadiscourse analysis opportunities. Yet despite these opportunities, it seems to be an understudied linguistic genre which requires more research into its interactional features.
Olga Boginskaya
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