75 research outputs found
Photograph - Neave, Prof Marcia, first woman Law Chair
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/289551Neave, Prof Marcia, first woman Law Chair306252
Item: [2003.0003.06614] "Photograph - Neave, Prof Marcia, first woman Law Chair
Book Reviews
No full textProfessional negligence by David Partlett, reviewed by John Keeler. Family Law by Anthony Dickey, reviewed by Brian Davis. The Australian Commonwealth: a fundamental analysis of its Constitution by Michael Detmold, reviewed by Peter Hanks. Introduction to torts by David Baker and The law of torts in Australia by F. Trindade and P. Cane, reviewed by Marcia Neave
Providing justice to sex assault victims takes more than trials
No full textProsecution fails many victims, argue Marcia Neave and Michael Rozenes in the National Times.
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We begin with three typical stories about sexual assault. Two intellectually disabled girls complain that a 17-year-old boy with autism has indecently assaulted them. The parents of one girl are angry and want the boy to be prosecuted, but the police tell them it is unlikely he will be convicted. The parents of the other girl want him to understand that what he did was wrong and he must not do it again.
A 50-year-old man has only now been able to discuss the fact that as a young child he was molested by a family friend who is now almost 80 years old. He does not want the perpetrator jailed but wants an acknowledgment of the harm done to him and an understanding that the offender was not the kind old man everyone thought he was.
A 50-year-old woman is raped by her 20-year-old neighbour after she invited him to have a drink with her. The jury was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the woman did not consent to have sex with the alleged offender. He is acquitted after a trial.
As it stands, the criminal justice process cannot acknowledge or vindicate these victims. And some alleged offenders may go on to harm others.
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The Power of Feminist Judgments?
No full textRecent years have seen the advent of two feminist judgment-writing projects, the Women’s Court of Canada, and the Feminist Judgments Project in England. This article analyses these projects in light of Carol Smart’s feminist critique of law and legal reform and her proposed feminist strategies in Feminism and the Power of Law (1989). At the same time, it reflects on Smart’s arguments 20 years after their first publication and considers the extent to which feminist judgment-writing projects may reinforce or trouble her conclusions. It argues that both of these results are discernible—that while some of Smart’s contentions have proved to be unsustainable, others remain salient and have both inspired and hold important cautions for feminist judgment-writing projects
Male faces and bodies: Evidence of a condition-dependent ornament of quality
No full textThornhill and Grammer (1999) have argued that certain facial and bodily features in women serve as ‘honest’ signals of their reproductive quality and that these features comprise a single condition-dependent ornament. Here we test whether the hypothesis that male faces and bodies also comprise such a sexual ornament. Photographs of faces and bodies (front and back views) of 43 males subjects were rated independently by a total of 78 female volunteers in terms of ‘attractiveness’, ‘masculinity’, and ‘dominance’. Ratings of male faces correlated significantly positively with the same ratings of their bodies. Thus, if a face was rated as being attractive, dominant and masculine, then the body was rated in the equivalent manner. Males who possess attractive, masculine, and dominant looking faces also possess attractive, masculine, and dominant looking bodies, probably because of similar patterns of underlying proximate mechanisms that affect their development
‘Silent victims’: royal commission recommends better protections for child victims of family violence
No full textAmong the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence’s most important recommendations is the powerful acknowledgement that family violence has devastating effects on children. Commissioner Marcia Neave described children as the “silent victims” of family violence
Kananaskis Country: A Study of Siltation of Selected Creeks
No full textWildland RecreationIn 1986, Alberta Fish and Wildlife conducted a study on ten creeks within the Elbow District of Kananaskis Country. This study showed that excess siltation is accruing in four of the ten creeks and their tributaries. These creeks are major spawning, overwintering and rearing habitats for three species of trout. The main purpose of this project is to provide substantial information on how and where sediments are entering the four creeks
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