Witness testimony

[@celinexia2048]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge Dr Anthony!

[@AnthsLawSchool]

You're very welcome!

[@ItsJADA]

Seriously Anthony you are doing god's work here sharing valuable knowledge

[@AnthsLawSchool]

I'm really glad it was helpful!

[@ItsJADA]

@@AnthsLawSchool It may just get my mates son back spending time with his father... honestly could not thank you enough. I wish you all the best and I'll keep you posted after the hearing

[@ItsJADA]

@Anthony Marinac Seriously together with a lot of time spent watching your videos, reading the Acts, some choice advice from a Psychologist & a legal sec we have been herd. After 8 months my mate has regular unsupervised visits with his boy. 2 communications & design students took the time to detail the facts, express our concerns, make clear connections in our evidence and make clear and reasonable requests. And things went pretty f'ing well My mate went from being 100% disenchanted to feeling positive For your small part I genuinely wish you all the best 🍻 If you need a website one day let us know we can chat

[@melishapeters]

Thank you.

[@DavisThuranira]

Learning from Kenya. Thanks

[@AnthsLawSchool]

That's wonderful, I really love knowing my materials are helpful for students bringing justice and law in Africa. Very best wishes!

[@vivianp1618]

Thanks once again for these amazing and helpful videos. I cant wait to start my studies in July. From your video I understand the "rape shield" in regards to no longer being able to question the victim of sexual assault in regards to their sexual history. Does this mean that they can no longer be questioned in regards to other things in their history/character? Such as whether or not their profession was sex work or stripping? Can their history for posing for nude photos be brought into question?

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Hi Vivian :) If I were the prosecutor I would certainly be objecting to those questions. It might be relevant to the offence if, for instance, a sex worker was assaulted or raped while at work - for instance, let's say a client turned up at a solo sex worker's home and she decided he wasn't a client she wanted to see, but he continued. Or say he was a client who stepped outside the boundaries and then refused to stop when she withdrew consent. In those cses it might be relevant just to set the scene. However the mere fact that someone is a sex worker is irrelevant. A woman has the absolute right to strip for a living, post a million nudes online, have sex with a hundred guys for money, and then STILL to say no to man who seeks her consent for sex.

[@aeternoscorpio5230]

my grandmother had a reproduction of the most famous claude monet of the water lillies, and i loved it for that

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Any Monet is beautiful :)

[@random19911004]

37:00 Have to disagree with the 'rape shield'. Fair enough with having the hearings private. But it absolutely should be fair game to ask about reputation for chastity or promiscuity. Because they said yes 75 times before, it does make it MORE LIKELY that they said yes this time. It is not a certainty, but it is something that can be considered in terms of testing credibility. Have to be very careful with how you consider the response, but I think it should be fair game.

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Bob, the difficulty with that argument is that a person is entitled to say yes to 75 people, 100, 1000, and yet still to say "no" on any individual occasion and have that respected. Regardless though, rape shiels laws are now a long-standing fixture of evidence law and I cannot imagine that changing.

[@_bakz_3682]

30:11 - children as witnesses

[@_bakz_3682]

34:25 - rape victims as witnesses. The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1978 (Queensland)

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Thanks for putting these markers in for other students to use!

[@nickyinskip2767]

Hi .. would you like me to prove that there are corrupt lawyer's in Queensland , from around the 8 min mark forward .etc is good .. we could do this as a class .. but for real ..I'm up for it ..

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Hi Nicky, if you have any proof of corrupt lawyers in Queensland, or if you are unhappy with service you have received from a lawyer in Queensland, then rather than proving it to me, the best thing you can do is get in contact with the Legal Services Commission. They have the powers (which I don't have) to do something about anyone who is not meeting the standards of the profession.

[@nickyinskip2767]

@@AnthsLawSchool thank you . it's been a long road but I've just about lost any faith I had in the judicial system , but I'll look into this legal services .. thank you again Anthony ..

[@aeternoscorpio5230]

22:25 poor bugger

[@AnthsLawSchool]

Nah, everyone's memories degrade. That's the point :)