Is the law neutral, and does it serve us all equally? The Scottish Feminist Judgements Project (SFJP) attempts to answer these questions. Legal academics and practitioners got together to re-write historical cases through a gendered lens. In their re-writing, the feminist judges could only use tools - laws, evidence, and social understanding of the world - that could have been accessed by the original judge and jury at the time of the original judgement.
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From Elisabeth Barlow
In this bonus episode, we discuss the impact that feminist judgments can have, and how they are meaningful. In the first half of the episode, Amrita Ahluwalia-McMeddes… -
From Elisabeth Barlow
Mr and Mrs Coyle were married for 25 years. After several years of being separated, Mrs Coyle filed for divorce. They had accumulated some wealth over the years, and… -
From Elisabeth Barlow
In 1998, Fiona Lang was charged under the Road Traffic Act of being in charge of a motor vehicle while over the limit: drink driving. Fiona pled the defence of… -
From Elisabeth Barlow
In 1998, Marylin McKenna was murdered by Stuart Drury. Drury was tried for her murder and was found guilty, but he appealed the decision claiming he had been provoked…