Courting With Justice
(26 minute documentary)
- Synopsis
- Credits
Synopsis
A former Norseman pub manager was charged with the manslaughter of
Kevin Rule, a member of the Ngadju Nation, but later found not guilty.
The dead man's partner, Daniella Borg, is certain the manager's lethal
punch killed Kevin and feels the Australian Judicial System has not
provided her with justice. Daniella has decided to have a re-trial. This
time it is to be set on Kevin’s lands, within the framework of the oldest
law in the land. The case is going before an Indigenous Customary Law
Court .
Posing the question - what if the Australian legal system was not based
on the British model but rather on one of the oldest Law systems in the
world, Indigenous Australian Customary Law? Courting with Justice is a
dramatic portrayal of the retrial with the bar manager being played by
Roy Billing (The Dish, All Saints ).





