Communications challenges: Intimidation in our courtrooms

IT’S nearly 70 years since Aldo Leopold wrote A Sand County Almanac. That beautiful book remains a cornerstone in contemporary thinking around our relationship with the natural world.

One of the book’s recurring themes is the end of solitude and man’s relentless encroachments on the quietest places. It is difficult to imagine how Leopold — born in 1887 — would reconcile ideas of solitude and today’s 24/7 communications tsunami.

Today, our justice system — or more correctly our system for the administration of justice — faces that very same question.