ABSTRACT Innovative justice forums form a small but important part of the justice landscape in Australia and elsewhere. These include many civil and protective tribunals, local dispute centres, special purpose courts like drug or Indigenous courts, restorative justice conferences and – particularly relevant to this special issue –neighbourhood justice centres. Innovative forums like these are designed to be problem-solving: the focus is on achieving outcomes that resolve the underlying issues. While the substantive results of any legal process are obviously important, one of the most ‘innovative’ features of innovative forums is the way they carry out their tasks. This paper examines the rituals and spaces of three innovative forums, examining in detail one case study from each: a Koori court hearing in a suburban Melbourne court, a family group conference in a suburban house in Dunedin, and a youth court preliminary hearing in the chambers of a juge des enfants in Paris. A comparison of the three hearings allows us to analyse the way spaces are managed and furniture organised, how authority is symbolised, how opening, closing and transitional ceremonies are arranged, and what sort of subjects are produced in the process.

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创新法庭中的仪式和空间

摘要 创新的司法论坛是澳大利亚和其他地方司法领域的一个小而重要的组成部分。其中包括许多民事和保护法庭、地方争议中心、毒品或土著法庭等特殊目的法庭、恢复性司法会议以及与这一特殊问题特别相关的社区司法中心。像这样的创新论坛旨在解决问题：重点是实现解决潜在问题的结果。虽然任何法律程序的实质性结果显然很重要，但创新论坛最“创新”的特征之一是它们执行任务的方式。本文考察了三个创新论坛的仪式和空间，详细研究了每个论坛的一个案例研究：墨尔本郊区法院的 Koori 法庭听证会，在达尼丁郊区的房子里举行了家庭小组会议，在巴黎的一个少年法官的房间里举行了青年法庭的初步听证会。三个听证会的比较使我们能够分析空间的管理方式和家具的组织方式，权威是如何象征的，开幕式、闭幕式和过渡仪式是如何安排的，以及在这个过程中产生了什么样的主题。