TO THE
HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
We, the undersigned, petition the legislature to
begin the process of changing to a truth-seeking legal system. Change is essential
because the adversary system which lawyers contrived to impose upon Britain and
its colonies, including Australia, is unfair to the community.
As Evan Whitton notes in OUR CORRUPT LEGAL
SYSTEM: Why Everyone Is a Victim (Except Rich Criminals):
· The
adversary system operates on the basis that truth does not matter; it is the
only system which suppresses evidence.
· Lawyers
trained in sophistry, i.e. the art of lying, are allowed to control evidence
and spin the process out.
· Judges
are former lawyers, with no training as judges.
The
investigative system used in Europe and other countries is more just because
judges trained separately from lawyers search for the truth, and costs less
because they have no motive to prolong the process. Thus:
|
|
Investigative
system
|
Adversary
system
|
|
Seeks
truth
|
Yes
|
No
|
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Conceals
evidence
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
In
charge of evidence
|
Trained
judges
|
Lawyers
|
|
Length
of civil hearings
|
Usually
about a day
|
Weeks,
months, years
|
|
Conviction
rates
|
95%
|
Under
50%
|
|
Innocent
in prison
|
Rare
|
1% - 5%
|
Lawyers
are 0.2% of the population. Victims of their anti-truth system include victims
of crime, taxpayers, litigants, and people in medicine, business, industry,
police, and the media. We thus believe that the vast majority of voters will
support changing to a truth-seeking system, and therefore ask the House to implement
such change.
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Please download petition by clicking on the link above, collect as many signatures as you can (must be 18 years or over), and return to: Mary Cotter, 10 Victoria St, Preston 3072.
***Please note that due to Parliament's winter break which goes until 24th August, the return date has been extended to the 23rd August***