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...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtroom by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...
...Austria and in France. An Austrian Interlude is marked by the injustice that is created by rudeness and arrogance in judges. On a minor charge of malicious damage (something about a torn curtain), the woman defendant is both badgered and insulted by the court. And in Paris, Author Bedford looked on with fascination and horror at a farcical trial of Algerians. The men may very well have been the terrorists the prosecution claimed they were, but the trial itself was a form of terrorism. The judge was indifferent, the lawyers made irrelevant speeches laced with quotations from French classics...
Sketches from Life. In Germany, the country where Sybille Bedford was born and which she later came to fear and distrust, she found the highest degree of thoughtfulness and understanding. Whatever the tribunal or whatever the case, it seemed almost as if the entire court system was trying to prove that justice had returned to Germany. In a murder case both judge and prosecution show an impressive sense of fairness. In a divorce case, an alimony hearing, the case of a Czech refugee who had stolen food to stay alive, the human decency displayed by all hands...