Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: Source materials

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Annex to Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: towards a general framework for comparing distortion in rules of evidence

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and ideologies
Source materials [this document]
-- Useful case studies for historical comparison (Annex B)
-- Rules of evidence in normal legal process
-- Rules of evidence in international trials and tribunals
-- Rules of evidence in 'extra-legal' 'trials'and judgements (possibly based on ethical codes)
-- Sectors extending the challenge of refining rules of evidence
-- Assessment and evaluation
-- Alternative frameworks and belief systems (appeals to other forms of reason)
-- Issues relating to evidence and argument
-- Distinguishing terrorists from freedom fighters and change agents and 'smear-and-fear'

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Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion
Rules of evidence in normal legal process
Rules of evidence in international trials and tribunals
Rules of evidence in 'extra-legal' 'trials' and judgements (possibly based on ethical codes)
Sectors extending the challenge of refining rules of evidence
Assessment and evaluation -- incomplete)
Alternative frameworks and belief systems (appeals to other forms of reason)
Issues relating to evidence and argument
Distinguishing terrorists from freedom fighters and change agents

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Useful case studies for historical comparison

Presented as Annex B containing:

Star Chamber

• People playing key roles: Trial of Jesus; William Wallace (1305); Joan of Arc (1431); Martin Luther (1521); Thomas More (1535); Galileo Galilei (1616 and 1633); Leon Trotsky (1937) ; Adolf Eichmann (1961); Nelson Mandela (1963-4); Steve Biko (1976); Manuel Noriega (1991); Katie Sierra (2001)
• Trials of groups: Salem witches (1692); My Lai courts martial (1970)
• Political 'show trials': Moscow Trials (1937-8); Hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947-54); Chicago Seven (1969-70); Xinjiang Uighur (1999); Uzbekistan (2000)
• Trials in literature

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