Prima Facie (NHB Modern Plays)

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Winner of the 2018 Griffin Award, Prima Facie is an indictment of the Australian legal system's failure to provide reliable pathways to justice for women in rape, sexual assault or harassment cases. It's a work of fiction, but one that could have been ripped from the headlines of any paper, any day of the week, so common you could cry. She masterfully manages the dramatic shift to the assault, holding us rapt and horrified, though Tessa’s decision to take to the witness stand herself is not entirely convincing, story-wise, for a woman who knows that “the law on sexual assault spins on the wrong axis” and that women are so often doomed to lose. The professional strategist and cynic of the start seems too far removed from the believer in true justice she later becomes. She didn't get married till she was in her 40s, because she didn't want to give it up," Miller told Sarah Kanowski for ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books. She often, while practicing, did not believe in the sincerity of her female clients claims of rape; that there must have been some culpability on the part of her clientage.

The notion of prima facie is not limited to the pre-trial phase of a case. It can be used as a general standard of evidence. Olivier Award-winning actress Jodie Comer, makes her Broadway debut in Prima Facie, the new play the Daily Beast calls “one of the most electrifying pieces of theatre on Broadway.” Deontologists appear to do it the other way around; they first consider what actions are 'right' and proceed from there. (Actually this is what they do in practice, but it isn't really the starting point of deontological thinking.) Still: in its novelised form, Miller’s story remains a compelling exposé of a broken system that once seen, we cannot – should not – unsee, and a call to action for changing it. When Prima Facie won the Olivier Award for best new play earlier this year, its Australian playwright, Suzie Miller, was caught off guard.Now it seems to me that if some fact makes an act right (in the peremptory rather than the mere permissibility sense of right -- i.e., obligatory), then that fact will give the agent a reason to do the right act. So, if the fact that I have promised you that I would Ф is the reason why Фing is right, then the fact that I promised to Ф gives me a reason to Ф, and one might hope that I would Ф for that reason. The same is true if I ought to benefit you because you benefitted me in the past. If that past fact explains why I ought to confer this benefit on you, then that fact gives me a reason to do so. So it seems to me that the following principle is true: Kant then pondered what this meant for human conduct. He concluded that only an action done for 'a good will' was a right action, regardless of the consequences. I really did have a bit of a passion in my belly to change the world. That was the reason I did law," she says. are self-evident and obvious duties ( prima facie is a Latin expression meaning 'on first appearances' or 'by first instance') In July, Miller will return to Griffin with Jailbaby, described as a "spiritual sequel" to Prima Facie, and- developed and produced with the assistance of the Australian Writers' Guild David Williamson Prize.

I received this book in the mail before I went to London to see Jodie Comer’s impeccable performance. I’m glad that I listened to my gut and waited to read this because now, I am reliving that day through the words in print. This book/play I really can’t find the words for but SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE! Coming from one of the one in three, our voices deserve to be heard. Be the voice, not an echo. classification organisation. That means all age recommendations are subjective and should be treated as JODIE COMER “gives ONE OF THE MOST THRILLING PERFORMANCES OF THE BROADWAY SEASON.” (Wall Street Journal) as Tessa, a young brilliant barrister who loves to win.While dividing her time between Sydney and London, Miller is also working on a number of feature films (including an adaptation of Prima Facie that will star English actress and singer Cynthia Erivo) and TV series. She also has a two-book contract with Pan Macmillan. Consequentialist theories don't pay direct attention to whether an act is carried out with good or bad intentions; most people think these are highly relevant to moral judgements. As in Australia, Prima Facie's London run was a popular hit and provoked big emotional reactions; but the play's impact on the legal scene has been even more significant. According to the prima facie standard of proof, a party must produce adequate evidence that a certain claim is true at the surface level. The subject is still being debated and even refuted. As a result, the prima facie standard of proof is low. What is an example of prima facie reasoning?