it’s not the “legal system”. It’s the political system.
The legal system has duped the political system for too long. Strict liability is a product of a document not picked up by the bored and unintelligent politicians then not allowed to progress by interferrence with a dis-allowance motion in the Senate, where it was seized upon by persons in considerable power and abused.
The whole scam of reversal of burden of proof lies with those that allowed this abomination.
Creampuff, It's my opinion your hands are not clinically clean in this regard.
A metaphor, mixed or other, is Captain Bligh rowing away in a whaler while the crew toss potplants out of the ship.
What vessel are you on exactly?