Prima Facie Script 2021 Jun 2026

Tessa is working-class (Liverpudlian background) who made it to the bar. Miller nods to this—Tessa mocks posh lawyers—but the script never deeply interrogates how class or race compound sexual assault cases. The play implies that a white, educated, articulate woman still cannot win. What of those without her privilege? That question is raised but not explored.

If the prima facie script is inevitable, the solution is not to abolish it but to institutionalize its revision. In science, this is called falsifiability: a hypothesis is strong precisely because it invites disconfirmation. In journalism, it is the correction and the follow-up story. In law, it is the right to cross-examine and present a defense. In personal ethics, it is the practice of intellectual humility—the conscious pause that says, "This is my first draft; what evidence might change my mind?" prima facie script

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