Introduction

• Author: Peter Jamadar/Elron Elahie/Richard Jamadar
• Pages: 3-5

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External Individual Quadrant ........................................................................................................................ 59

Changes in courthouse and out of court awareness ...................................................................... 61

Changes in awareness about influencing considerations............................................................ 63

(i) Judicial officers’ internal mental, emotional, and psychological states ........................................... 64

(ii) Judicial officers’ values, beliefs, biases, stereotypes and discriminating considerations ......... 67

(iii) Judicial officers’ personal likes, dislikes, attractions and aversions, assumptions, and

expectations ....................................................................................................................................................... 70

(iv) Judicial officers’ contextually prevailing local, social and cultural values, beliefs, biases,

stereotypes and discriminating considerations ........................................................................................... 73

Changes in Attentiveness and Distractedness during Court Proceedings ............................... 74

OPEN ENDED INQUIRIES ABOUT THE PRACTICES AND THEIR IMPACT ............ 77

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................ 81

BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................................... 90

AUTHORS’ REFLECTIONS..................................................................................................... 93

Justice Peter Jamadar ........................................................................................................................... 93

Judge Richard Jamadar ....................................................................................................................... 94

APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................. 95

INTRODUCTION