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Mock
Trial: Revisiting The Lindy & Michael Chamberlain ('Dingo') Trial, 1982
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. What do you know about the Lindy & Michael Chamberlain case? Discuss as a class and ask members of your families what they know about this case.
2. You are going to conduct a mock
trial about this historic case. In teams of 10 students, read up the
Sydney University Mock Trial Manual for the rules governing a mock
trial. (PDF -
unavailable on Internet in 2019; but here is a copy from the Internet
Archive)
3. Select who will role play the main characters in the Trial of Lindy & Michael Chamberlain including witnesses, the forensic scientist, the judge, barristers, and jury.
3. Read over the trial material and prepare your case. This normally takes 2 weeks to prepare. You are to role play rather than conduct a scripted trial, however, you can research beyond the resources provided here [but you need to declare to the other side your research].
4. Conduct a Mock Trial.
Resources:
Policing
and Informants in Victoria - What are the ramifications?
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Philosophy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. Form into groups of 4 - 5 students.
Did you know that on the 3 December 2018, news broke that ..... a barrister acted as a police informant [for the prosecution] while working as a barrister for the defense.
"Victoria is finally getting a
royal commission into policing following yesterday’s decisions of the High
Court and earlier, the Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal, to release court
rulings that outline an extraordinary episode involving the use of a police
informant.
The informant - referred to in court documents only as EF - is a barrister
who acted for the defence in several high profile cases that resulted in
convictions. It turns out she was also a police informer against the very
same people she was representing before the courts. This is a shocking
breach of the barrister’s duty as an officer of the court to uphold legal
professional privilege - that is, the confidentiality of what passes between
barrister and client."
(Source:
The Conversation 4 December 2018)
2. Read the above article from The Conversation and list down the concerns
of the author.
3. Hold a
Community of Inquiry [CoI] using this article as your stimulus source.
4. After holding a CoI, debate the question as a class:
What are the ramifications?
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