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Come home with the Walkers in the unforgettable third season of Brothers And Sisters. Television’s most captivating family is back with more secrets and surprises than ever before. It’s a new year full of exciting developments. Robert and Kitty dream of parenthood, and the future of Ojai Foods hangs by a thread. Witness every business (and social) affair of the Walker and the Harper families in Season Three, complete with never-before-seen bonus features available only on DVD.
How are poverty and social inequality entrenched through a failing
justice system? In this important book, Jon Robins and Daniel
Newman examine how the lives of people already struggling with
problems with their welfare benefits, jobs, housing and immigration
are made much harder by cuts to legal aid and the failings of our
creaking justice system. Over the course of 12 months, interviews
were carried out on the ground in a range of settings with people
as they were caught up in the justice system, in a range of
settings such as foodbanks in a church hall in a wealthy part of
London; a community centre in a former mining town; a homeless
shelter for rough sleepers in Birmingham; and a destitution service
for asylum seekers in a city on the South coast, as well as in
courts and advice agencies up and down the country. The authors
argue that a failure to access justice all too often represents a
catastrophic step in the life of the person concerned and their
family. This powerful, yet moving, account humanises the hostile
political debates that surround legal aid and reveals what access
to justice really means in Austerity Britain.
This collection brings together international experts to present a
comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure.
The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach with authors drawn
from a broad range of backgrounds including law, psychology,
forensics and journalism. All are experts in their field with
direct experience of the investigation of wrongful conviction in
their own countries. Focusing on the main areas of concern in their
own jurisdiction, each author discusses common themes including:
the extent of the problem; the types of cases that feature in
miscarriages of justice; the legal mechanism for the correction of
a wrongful conviction; compensation for the wrongly convicted;
public awareness and concern about the issue generally and in light
of high-profile cases; and the extent to which wrongful conviction
has driven criminal justice reform. The book will be essential
reading for students, researchers and policy-makers interested in
Comparative Law, Criminology and Psychology.
Jon Robin Baitz has been praised as one of America's foremost
playwrights on themes of conscience. Now from the author of The
Substance of Fire comes an absorbing new play about power and money
and the ruinous effects it can have on friendship, love, marriage,
and ultimately oneself. In this modern tragedy set in urban New
York City, Wall Street powerhouse Sandy Sonenberg finds his
personal and professional life threatened by the unraveling secrets
of his past. After burying his true sexual identity, a lethal
affair with a young male associate forces Sonenberg to confront a
lifetime of unrequited love and betrayal.
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Hedda Gabler (Paperback, 1st ed)
Henrik Ibsen; Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz; Foreword by Susan Faludi
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In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning
the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed
Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world
has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she
is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was
expected of her, to the duties of home.
Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as
an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity
of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary
idiom. His adaptation provides an opportunity to understand the
play through a lens shaped by feminism and a theatrical tradition
beginning with Beckett. Trapped by the conventions of her age,
Gabler is both a martyr and a female incarnation of Vladimir and
Estragon, longing for a salvation that will likely never
arrive.
Whenever a miscarriage of justice case hits the headlines, it is
tempting to dismiss it as a shocking aberration. A mistake in a
system that otherwise functions in a perfectly satisfactory
fashion. This important book shows how the lack of an effective
watchdog, failures in policing, poor legal defence in the wake of
the legal aid pay freeze, an over-reliance on expert evidence and
reluctance in the media to cover miscarriage cases has led to a
growing crisis in the criminal justice system. If you think there's
a safety net, think again. In 2017, the Criminal Cases Review
Commission, the watchdog established to oversee and prevent
miscarriages of justice, celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The
release of the Birmingham Six in 1991 set in train a series of
events: a Royal Commission was launched which ultimately led to
major structural reform of the justice system and the creation of
an independent body to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice.
It didn't fix the problem. Journalist and campaigner Jon Robins
explodes the complacency that exists around our criminal justice
system by examining a series of shocking cases where there are
serious concerns about the safety of each conviction.
Full Length, Drama Characters: 3 male, 2 female 2 Interior Sets
Isaac Geldhart, the imperious scion of a family owned publishing
house, is under siege. A takeover is being engineered by his son
Aaron, who sees the firm's profitability steadily declining and
wants to publish a trashy novel to bring in the bucks. Isaac plans
to go on publishing scholarly works such as a multi volume history
of Nazi medical experiments. Aaron has the necessary yen from
Japanese backers but he needs the votes of his brother and sister.
Reluctantly, they side against the old man. The second act takes
place in the library of Isaac's townhouse a few years after his
forced retirement. He has become so irascible and eccentric that
his children have asked the court to judge his competence. Isaac,
who survived the Holocaust and transcended the death of his wife to
build an important publishing company from scratch, faces his
greatest challenge: persuading the psychiatric social worker that
he is sane. "A deeply compassionate play." N.Y. Times "A remarkably
intelligent drama." N.Y. Newsday.
Kenneth Lonergan is known for his trademark humor and genius for
capturing the real heart and soul of human interactions. Time
magazine raved that he is among our most gifted, unflinching and
unpretentious new playwrights, and called his first play, This Is
Our Youth, one of the ten best plays of 1998. With The Waverly
Gallery, Lonergan has once again shown himself to have one of the
keenest ears of any working playwright (Ben Brantley, The New York
Times). A powerfully poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly
Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty
grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. Gladys is
an old school lefty and social activist and longtime owner of a
small art gallery in Greenwich Village. The play explores her fight
to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline
on her family, especially her grandson. More than a memory play,
The Waverly Gallery captures the humor and strength of a family in
the face of crisis. You will be awed by Lonergan's writing. --
Christopher Isherwood, Variety; [Lonergan] has written a loving but
brutal, commercial yet unflinching American family drama that knows
about the simultaneous human systems of entertainment and agony. As
anyone who cares about aging loved ones already knows, life on that
particular edge is often so real you have to laugh. . . he is
dead-on about family in all its simultaneous affection and
irritation. -- Linda Winer, Newsday; A stirring and soulful, comic
drama ... classically so, a la Glass Menagerie ... Waverly is often
deeply funny. It is both painful and hilarious. -- Ben Brantley,
The New York Times
'I would have been the firsta - a Then there [were] the Birmingham
Six, the Bridgewater Four and the Cardiff Three. Eacha - a another
nail in my coffin': Tony Stock, 2008. The story of Tony Stock is
astonishing: deeply disturbing it sent out ripples of disquiet when
he was sentenced to ten years for robbery at Leeds Assizes in 1970.
Over the next 40 years the case went to the Court of Appeal four
times and has the distinction of being the first to have been
referred to that court twice by the Criminal Cases Review
Commission. Tony Stock died in 2012 still fighting to clear his
name: spending from his meagre savings to hire private
investigators and hoping beyond hope to see justice. Jon Robins
takes up where Stock left off undertaking new research with the
support of Glyn Maddocks, Stock's lawyer, and Ralph Barrington,
formerly the CCRC's investigations adviser. Previously head of
Essex CID, Barrington was so shocked at how the Court of Appeal
treated Stock that he pursued it after he retired. 'If anyone
seriously believes the Court of Appeal has reformed itself since
the dark days of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, they should
study the unreported and amazing case of Tony Stock': Private Eye.
'One of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice of modern
times': Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield. 'I would have
thought that the injustice done to Tony [Stock] was fairly
self-evident and yet his conviction still stands. I find this very
difficult to accept': Ralph Barrington, investigations adviser at
the Criminal Cases Review Commission. 'The fight for justice that
will not die': Yorkshire Post.
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