The judgement here, in fact, comes to represent a reflective activity that is precisely at odds with Dredd’s dominant ‘hard-line’ judicial style that Anderson seeks to question.ĭesmond Manderson expresses this point clearly, and in its deep cultural contexts, in his extended analysis of Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. But we should not let this undermine the fruitfulness of considering the question of judgment in the form of a judgment between the opposing views of Dredd and Anderson. Even in a street-hard Judge like Dredd’ (‘A Case for Treatment’ in ). Indeed, in that mini-series Dredd was diagnosed as being a fallible human rather than an unbending conduit for legal rule, a problem that all the hard training, enrobing, and masking of Mega-City judges has never been able to fully eradicate: ‘No matter how hard we try to control it, sooner or later the human being behind the mask always starts to come out. In the world of Dredd, however, such concerns of impartiality and of taking seriously an attempt to question judicial authority would likely not be given much serious consideration, if any-more likely, Anderson would be submitted for psychiatric testing, as happened to Dredd himself when he uncharacteristically questioned his own judgment see the three issue mini-series starting with ‘A Question of Judgment’ in. So, although Dredd and Anderson work mainly in Mega-City One, their dispute is being dealt with in the distant Sydney-Melbourne Conurb. On the level of the judgment’s fictional coherence, it might be speculated that a case between officers of one Mega-City would likely be heard by Judges in another Mega-City in order to maintain impartiality.
The ‘Seeing Law’ workshop where this paper was delivered was hosted by the Law Futures Centre, Griffith Law School, Gold Coast, Australia hence, this judgment is being handed down in the leading Australian Mega-City. As indicated in article note, in the diegetic world of Dredd the Sydney-Melbourne Conurb is the Australian Mega-City it is encountered most directly in the Oz series.
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