Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:27:33 +1100

From: Harold Luntz

Subject: Mitigation by adoption

Another feminist view (from the transcript of argument in the High Court of Australia in Nafte v CES & Ors S91/1996 (11 September 1996)?

GAUDRON J: That would be about the cruelest and most inhumane submission I have heard put in this Court since I have been here. I must say, it took my breath away when I read the judgments below suggesting that that was a proper form of mitigation.

Harold Luntz,
Professorial Fellow,
Law School,
The University of Melbourne,
Victoria, 3010,
AUSTRALIA.

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