VoxBrief - August 2011 - Truth and Freedom: The Importance Of Robust Debate

VoxBrief - August 2011 - Truth and Freedom: The Importance Of Robust Debate

TRUTH AND FREEDOM: THE IMPORTANCE OF ROBUST DEBATE. By Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA, National President, FamilyVoice Australia.

 

 

 

 

I will never forget the day when I was called to give evidence in a defamation case being heard in the Adelaide Supreme Court. An offical ushered me into the witness box, asked me to place my right hand on a Bible, and say "I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing by the truth."

 

 

Most of us have watched television dramas where witnesses have been sworn in court using similar words. This requirement to tell the truth in court procceedings is part of our culture, not just here in Australia but in Britain, America and throughout the English speaking world.

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