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Old 31st Oct 2013, 00:53
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PLovett
 
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Khaon, at the risk of (minor) thread drift the words of Evan Whitton are well known to the legal fraternity as he has been arguing against the adversarial system in favour of the inquisitorial system favoured by our European cousins now for many a year.

He is a zealot for his point of view and like many of that ilk will construct his arguments to prove his point. Just to pick on one, the ones you have quoted regarding truth. There is no way that any trial system, inquisitorial or adversarial, can arrive at "truth". Both systems will only arrive at a point that equates with what might be truth; that a judge will regard as something being more likely than not. However, the public, and to be fair, many within the legal system have no comprehension of this and continue with the fallacy that a court is there to find out the truth. Pure fiction.

Think about it; there are various competing versions of events, all of which purport to represent "the truth", in any legal proceedings and someone who wasn't there; does not know and in many ways cannot comprehend the backgrounds of the individuals who were there, is to decide what is the preferred version of events.
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