Planning EPQ
Arguments for
Article 6
Criminal justice system
Civil limb (article, European convention on human rights)
Criminal limb (article, European convention on human rights)
Case studies from these limbs
Their definitions of what Article 6 is
Compare their regulations
Their concept of a tribunal
Their criteria for assessing impartiality
Their subjective and objective approaches to situations
The exercise of their different judicial functions
Their procedural requirements
Fairness
The presumption of innocence
Independent and unbiased tribunals
Arguments against
How the media affects a trial
factors where a defendant can't receive a fair trial
what mass media is.
The sociological factors of how media affects people
The psychological factors of how media affects people
Cases which have been affected by media
theories behind it
hypodermic - syringe model
selective attention model
uses and gratification theory
cultural effects model
media theories behind it
The Affective Disposition Theory
simulation theory
theory of play
The positive and negatives of mass media
The case of Amanda Knox
James Bulger case
Baby P
Ghislaine Epstein
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard
Aileen Wournos
Court Delay
Failing to obtain, lose or destroy evidence
Non-disclosures by the prosecutor
discrimination of stereotypes
jurors bias