Domestic violence offenders no longer allowed to question abuse victims in Family Court - Politics

ThirdTurnip · 2018-06-28T13:08:40+00:00

Statistics on how many "victims" are lying goes way down when you make it illegal to prove they are lying.

iamanarci · 2018-06-28T14:14:31+00:00

This is how fucked up Australian family law has become .

1) Mother and father have equal shared responsibility, except when safety of the child is an issue. 2) Women can level domestic violence complaint without repercussions even if found to be unsubstantiated at a later time. 3)So, women allege domestic violence and get full custody of children until the matter appears before the courts - could be months. 4) Men cannot see their children until matter appears before courts.

Now, men cannot cross examine women to prove himself innocent or allegations of domestic violence are untrue.

In essence, believe women - no questions asked.

bklee83 · 2018-06-28T13:13:55+00:00

So long as there isn't an extra charge for a third party to do the cross examination I would be fine with this. The whole reasoning behind representing oneself is to not be paying a third party.

Omz-bomz · 2018-06-28T15:05:39+00:00

Courts would also have the discretion to stop the direct cross-examination where domestic violence was alleged, and would be required to put in place extra protections for alleged victims — including screens or video links in court rooms — where questioning was allowed to occur.

Where questioning is allowed, it would have to be done by a lawyer, including legal aid lawyers where an alleged abuser does not have their own representation.

"In those circumstances, cross-examination can and should probably still happen, but it will have to be conducted by an independent counsel," Mr Porter said.

Sounds ok to me, as they will have legal aid lawyers doing the cross if the alleged abuser does not have their own lawyer.
As long as this doesn't incur an fee that is (or at least not anything but a very minor one)

thrway_1000 · 2018-06-28T20:05:22+00:00

So, now it's presumption of guilt instead of innocence.

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2018-06-28T18:28:27+00:00

In case you needed another reason to avoid women- now you can be jailed on her say so- with literally no questions asked.

Title	Domestic violence offenders no longer allowed to question abuse victims in Family Court - Politics
Author	rbrockway
Upvotes	71
Comments	22
Date	June 28, 2018 1:02 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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