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Bordertown and The Globalisation of Justice
These are pages designed to be read in an Internet browser, with
a line open to the Internet, so that you can wander in and out whenever
and wherever you please. It is not structured like a book, with a beginning,
a middle and an end, confined to the work of one author. Instead, it is
a series of interlocking paths, paths that extend out to other pages on
other sites.
The pages
a) identify new demands placed on courts by communities entering the
Information Age;
b) describe use of information technology by a judicial officer, inside
and outside the court room; and
c) discuss key factors in selecting information technology to be used
by judicial officers.
The paper includes hyperlinks to many different Internet sites.
The site has grown out of a South Australian Magistrates Court Circuit
in January 1998, a circuit to the South East (obsolete link) of
South Australia. The first
stop was at Bordertown.
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Everyone looks at the world from different angles.
So there are three indices. Between them, they cover all of the pages
at this site.
Two of the indices are image maps. |
What you will not find are extracts from actual court cases involving
real people. When people come to a magistrates court, they do not expect
that the magistrate will publish, on the Internet, her notes about their
"troubles". Litigants do not normally see the notes the magistrate makes
while the case is proceeding.
Sometimes images are image maps hyperlinked to other pages. When a hand
appears as you pass a mouse over the picture, double click on the image
and see what happens next.
Even with IT, you cannot take the human element out.
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