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What's wrong with sexual assault trials? Can we make them better? What ethical responsibilities do judges,Crowns & defence counsel have? Are these being honoured?
Dr. Elaine Craig (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University) takes on these questions and more in her Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession, based on close readings of trial transcripts. Join the Osgoode Hall Law School to launch this important attempt at creating a different conversation about sexual assault, trials, rights, professional responsibility for lawyers, and the things we can do better.
Elaine Craig is associate professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
"This spectacular book pushes all of us to reconsider the impact of what we do-trials-on those caught up in the justice system. Thoughtful and hard hitting, Elaine Craig has done us all a service. This is the most important book you’ll see this year." Clayton Ruby, lawyer and activist and member of the Order of Canada
"Putting Trials on Trial is a riveting expose of criminal defence lawyers who regularly engage in aggressive and humiliating cross-examination, of crown attorneys who fail to meet their duties to complainants, and of judges who fail to intervene to prevent abusive cross-examination and who fail to properly apply substantive law. It is a must-read for those who seek to change the way that sexual assault law is practiced and adjudicated." The Honorable Marie Corbett, Q.C., author of January: A Woman Judge’s Season of Disillusion