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27 septembre 2017
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Julia Tolmie, « 3. New Zealand’s Jane Doe », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.5lckbl
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Julia Tolmie argues that Louise Nicholas’ monumental effort to prosecute three police officers for sexual assaults committed against her, commencing when she was a girl, also achieved what Sean Dewart suggests Jane Doe’s case did, by exposing abuse of power by police and generating a public demand for accountability. In contrast, however, Louise Nicholas’ case was not informed by feminist analysis and she was not vindicated personally by the trial outcomes. Like Lucinda Vandervort who, later in this volume, explores the multiplicity of legal errors in another disastrous sexual assault prosecution involving a gang assault on an Aboriginal girl, Julia chronicles how police and prosecutorial errors played a significant role in the multiple retrials that the complainant endured and that finally produced the officers’ acquittals. Louise Nicholas’ bravery did, however, result in more women coming forward to identify these officers as perpetrators, and several related convictions ensued. Julia’s discussion of the public inquiries and law reform proposals that the Louise Nicholas case prompted reminds us that legal wins and losses are only a starting point for feminist activism