Domestic violence courts: dispelling myths

Article here. Excerpt:

'In their attempts to understand the purpose of this specialized Court, maybe these lawyers are confused by the pink file covers that are used by police to denote a domestic violence case; perhaps their analysis doesn't go beyond the colour pink symbolizing female.

Since the 2007 inception of this specialized court, many lawyers have repeated, sometimes indignantly, some version of the myth that its very existence means that male perpetrators have been stripped of their Charter rights and are presumed guilty before they even stand before the Judge.

I have heard it said it's impossible for an accused to have a fair trial in Provincial Court -- Domestic Violence with all of those biased feminists running the show and trying to prove some point.'