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      Accessing court records as a feminist endeavour: Reflections on ‘Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa - Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope’

      McDonald, Elisabeth; Benton-Greig, Paulette
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      McDonald, E., & Benton-Greig, P. (2018). Accessing court records as a feminist endeavour: Reflections on ‘Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa - Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope’. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Forthcoming.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13016
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      In this piece, we reflect on the significance of accessing court records for feminist endeavours. We discuss two examples that illustrate the value of accessing and critiquing court processes. Feminist judgment writing, as a feminist endeavour, demonstrates the significance of hearing women’s stories as well as the importance of nuanced factual analysis that takes account of the lived experiences of women. Access to the court file in one of the rewritten judgments exposed missing relevant facts in the appellate decision, and demonstrates how the appellant’s story was never fully reflected in the judgment or verdict. In our rape trial research, access to court records makes visible the complainant’s evidence and the response of the judge to her as a person. It also allows inquiry as to how the rules of evidence enacted for the protection of the complainant, such as non-disclosure of their occupation, are actually working in practice.
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      2018
      Type
      Journal Article
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      Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
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      This article is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence.
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