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The Justice Game
by Geoffrey Robertson
This unit has been prepared by Pauline Byrne,
M.A. Dip Ed.
Please note: there is no reference to the section
'Afterword: The Justice Game' in this material.
Truth and the law:
introduction
- The Justice Game and syllabus requirements
- Research more examples
- How medium influences message
Rights for the evil-doer
- Rights
- Not always a popular job
- Activities
'The Trials of Oz'
- Background
- The subtext
- Activities
'Michael X on Death
Row'
- Capital punishment: for and against
- The Pratt and Morgan appeal, 1993
- Working on the case: student tasks
'The Romans in Britain'
- The play's purpose
- Theatres and the law
- The case in court
- Activities
'The Prisoner of
Venda'
- Watching for amnesty
- The pastors who forgave their torturers
- The prisoner who wouldn't lie
- Activities
'Show Trials'
- When justice is seen to be done, but isn't
really
- The president and the jazz fans
- Activities
- When 'truth' and 'justice' were dirty
words
- Never have I acted for such good people
- Trial by television
- Gagging the press
- Comparison with Australia
- Activity
Privacy versus press freedom: 'Diana
in the Dock'
- Different countries, different laws
- Activities
Preparing your case
