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