Non-Adversarial Justice: The Changing Role of Courtroom Participants in an Indigenous Sentencing Court pages-115-125
This paper forms part of a wider sociolinguistic study of cultural and language disadvantage for Indigenous offenders in the criminal justice system. It examines the changing role of courtroom participants in an Indigenous sentencing court such as the Koori Court of Victoria, and how this may lead to a better quality of justice for this disadvantaged cultural group. The problem under review is the high percentage of Indigenous offenders who continue to come in contact with the law. The key aim of the research is to determine if issues of miscommunication identified by academics over the past three decades continue to be reflected in the court process, or whether an awareness of cultural and language difference by participants at the Koori Court hearing leads to a more restorative and therapeutic outcome for Indigenous offenders. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the study investigates the role of participants and the communicative process in a conventional court and compares this with the non-adversarial Koori Court. There are now seven adult and two children’s Koori Courts in Victoria, established under the jurisdiction of the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, and one County Koori Court, Australia’s only Indigenous court in a higher jurisdiction for more serious cases. This paper will illustrate how new forms of court practice lead to improved interaction between courtroom professionals and other key participants such as the offender and Indigenous Elders, in order to best achieve a positive outcome.
The Experiential Meaning in Forensic Courtroom Discourse
: As a part of forensic linguistics, courtroom discourse is crucial to be explored. This paper is an attempt to investigate the experiential meaning focused on process types in courtroom discourse based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. Descriptive qualitative method focused on content analysis was employed as the research design. The data were the clauses taken from the conversation between jury, witness, and public prosecutor in a courtroom discourse in Medan-Indonesia. The findings reveal that material process is the dominant among other processes totalling to 33.07% followed successively by verbal (20.47%), mental and relational process (16.54%). It means that the interaction in courtroom discourse explores more about what happened in the case and what has performed by the actor or defendant. The speaker employs material process ‘to deliver’, action of corruption done implicitly, while verbal process is used to cover his worries of being known as corruptor.
La inseguridad jurídica en normas de contratación estatal
It is established by different studies that the issue of government procurement has been marred by several factors, the test objective to publicize these factors, we take as starting point the constant conflict between the branches of government to try and organize this subject; will collect and analyze diverse regulatory and case material in order to achieve evidence and demonstrate the different concepts of constant change that produces excessive regulation of the subject procurement and is in turn causing rapid changes that result in legal uncertainty for our law on the Contract Status.