Women's Imprisonment by Pat Carlen

Author:Pat Carlen [Carlen, Pat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843920694
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Clare Carlton and Bernice Bradley simply felt that the system of professional advocacy was self-evidently silly (cf. Christie, 1976).

‘When I was at the tried itself there were things that I knew the witnesses were lying about and I feel I should have been able to question them. What would the QC know about it? I mean, I only met the man once, for about twenty minutes and all he was asking me about then was about what was on the papers he had already read. No, that man didn’t know anything about me nor if it was true what they were saying. Even my solicitor wasn’t in court that day, it was a young bloke they sent up to court and I’d only met him twice. I mean, if you have something to say in court you should be allowed to say it, not these QCs.’ (Clare Carlton, her emphasis)

‘The Procurator Fiscal himself told a load of lies. He says, “Your Honour, the reason we’ve not got any background reports on these two is because they refused to give any to the Crown”, and we’d never been asked. Nobody ever came to ask us. And that was that. What could we say? I couldn’t jump up in the court and say anything because this QC who was standing there was meant to be doing it all for me — and he didn’t.’ (Bernice Bradley)

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