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battery saps dramatically if I leave any background apps on.
But I am clinging stubbornly and sentimentally to it. I like that it appeared at a time when smartphones were just becoming ubiquitous and there were so many varieties and designs, whereas now everyone has got a thin white slice. it does all the things i want a smartphone to do when i need it to — and the rest of the time it is, well, just a phone.That is my one bit of real stubbornness.
but the crux is also that sexual attacks and abuses are heinous because of their non-consensual nature and the degradation to the victim (and as a woman i find sexual crime especially troubling) but i dont know that the existence of the type of behaviour should really enter into it unless there is a causal link drawn.
the psychiatrist’s role is to diagnose and to testify to the existence or non-existence of a disorder or disease of mind/brain (which i hold to be something entirely within their sphere of expertise), and if so to tell us whether that disease have a causal impact on the actions of the accused, so that the court can decide on issues related to causation and voluntariness. and yes, we bow to expert opinion on prognosis and proposed treatment for probation reports. but by what right or training is a psychiatrist to say in a medical report whether they thought someone must have premeditated a crime — that is a question of evidence, of legal inference, especially not if you’ve only seen someone for two sessions and purport to be able to tell their life story.
but i also don’t believe medical personnel with the powers to prescribe mandatory treatment (and if they have any detention powers) should recommend that a person be kept “at the president’s pleasure.” i bet IMH has secured wards for criminal offenders who mighthave been there for 10 years or something.
criminal work is not often (although it sometimes is) about issues of law, it is actually quite fact-based — in that when you go to trial, i
analysing, interpreting and reconstruct evidence, a little more like police work in that sense, is most like police work — investigation
just looked around and there are 28 men in this room and i’m the only woman
and crim work is fairly routine when it comes to issues of law — it is much more about factual analysis, dealing with the evidence and interpreting or challenging it, building up a picture of what the case theory is. and because unlike in civil trials (affidavit-based) it is
but much more about evidence and how you analyse, interpret and challenge evience, about building up a pciture of what is, case theory
who is good at i’m bound to get all my accordeur de participes wrong
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part of that, for me, has to do with my personal temperament and outlook.
as i continue to look for a criminal training position, i wonder if i’m wrongheaded to persist: afterall, it may well be that i’m temperamentally unsuited to crim litigation: there’s the emotional and philosophical difficulties i have with the nature of crime itself, my constant doubts about human beings and free will, and also, sometimes, the criminal justice system.
and crim trials are more intense than civil trials, because it is — on the feet thinking, it is about evidence, analysis, much less about legal argumetns and technical sophistry but about evidence analysis and narraative building.
courtroom skills, reaction time,
has to do with thinking about outcomes, and crafting and structuring documents in a way to achieve that, that is and still making it elegant,
, because of the mental energy needed to
crim litigation is about skill — thinking on your feet, cross examination skills, witness handling, and all the time keeping your case theory in view and analysing new information rapidly and we do of coruse, but most of the time, facts rather than law
questions of law do
civil litigation s about strategy, submissions, pingpong, amend — endless tream of dratng and skillful tennis with the opposing lawyers
i don’t generally like civil work, whether or not it is litigation or advisory
sometimes i feel very unsure whether i’m better suited to crim work or civil work.
turn on esoteric facts:
the nature of a crim trial in singapore is very different from civil trials, because in civil trials we use affidavits for the EIC but in criminal trials we have even for the EIC we need witnesses to give testimony in person.
means being on your toes all the day, it means drafting nonstop , and it means a great deal of client care.