The Importance of Language in Criminal Law

I just want to clarify that what I was talking about before, that's happening in criminal law in Australia. So Lado is specifically to do with immigration law and it affects asylum seekers. And of course, asylum seekers are specifically disadvantaged in the most awful ways. If we had a colleague Laura Smith Khan here, she would tell you about how the cards are really stacked against them in so many linguistic and legal ways. But I was talking more about in our everyday criminal law, and so that doesn't necessarily only affect disadvantaged people. Obviously, people who come from disadvantaged groups are extra disadvantaged in those ways. There are a lot of problems in the way language is used as evidence really affect everybody