et’s be honest, there are people in our lives who we expect will provide for us once they kick the bucket. It’s not something most of us will openly admit but it is an assumption most of us make, especially when it comes to our parents. I’m not going to lie, I have thought about it. In fact, I have thought about it many times. Having grown up in a blended family I … [Read more...]
#BucketOpinion: Social Justice And Financially Compensating Victims Of Crime
icero said, ‘the more laws, the less justice’, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the criminal arena, where picking the victim in a criminal offence is not always as easy as it seems.Take two examples that St Johns Legal Centre has dealt with recently.A young woman, Jan, staying in a hostel, is harassed over a period of weeks by a man who is steadily becoming … [Read more...]