Suspicion – fuelled by media – can lead to Wrongful Convictions

Posted on March 3, 2025 by andrew

Public suspicion can (mis)lead courts & juries to miscarriages of justice, as contributor PETER GILL finds. Continue reading →

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Self contradiction in Crown case against Robert Xie

Posted on March 2, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban’s forthcoming book, FRAMED, about the wrongful conviction of Robert Xie, shines a light on several serious flaws undermining the conviction. Here are a couple of examples that show questionable behaviour by police, prosecution, judge and jury.  Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: FRAMED – Urban’s new book on Robert Xie

Posted on March 1, 2025 by andrew

Subtitled “How the legal system framed Robert Xie for the Lin family murders”, Urban’s latest book tells the astonishing true story of how a weak circumstantial case plus a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour throughout the legal system, from the street to the bench, led to Xie’s convictions. Continue reading →

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Bungled: three of the murder cases failed by the legal system

Posted on February 23, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

With a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour, the legal system has utterly failed to deliver justice and to correct its mistakes in these three examples of wrongful murder convictions, according to our investigations.  Continue reading →

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New Hampshire corruption drove the Fr. Gordon MacRae case

Posted on February 19, 2025 by andrew

This article was published at Fr. Gordon MacRae’s blog in 2023.  It sat there for over a year entirely unnoticed. Then on Wednesday February 12, 2024, its author, CLAIRE BEST emailed a link to it to the head of a New Hampshire coalition against corruption in the courts. It has since attracted world wide attention.  Continue reading →

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Seven charged as detectives uncover fraudulent sexual abuse compensation claims in scheme worth more than $1 billion

Posted on February 13, 2025 by andrew

Detectives from the Financial Crimes Squad have charged seven people following the discovery of fraudulent sexual abuse compensation claims in a scheme which has paid out over $1 billion in claims to date.  Continue reading →

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Noel Greenaway – the podcast

Posted on February 9, 2025 by andrew

This 25:27 minute podcast explores the complex case of Noel Greenaway, a former school superintendent accused of decades-old abuse, highlighting the challenges of balancing victim belief with the presumption of innocence.

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AI ‘kills’ Steve Fennell’s ‘grandmother’

Posted on January 19, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

An article compiled by AI states that “Steven Fennell is suing the Queensland government and police for malicious prosecution, misfeasance in public office, and abuse of process. Fennell was wrongfully convicted of murdering his grandmother, Mrs Watson, and spent time in prison. In September 2019, the High Court of Australia quashed his convictions.” But Mrs Watson was not his grandmother.  Continue reading →

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The long harm of the law

Posted on January 4, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

There should be an equivalent of the first principle of the doctors’ Hippocratic Oath for lawyers and judges – the entire legal system in fact: ‘first, do no harm.’ But there isn’t. For example, in the case of R v RB, NSW District Court judge Sean Grant explained that section 293 of the Criminal Procedure Act prevented a jury from being told that a complainant in a sexual assault prosecution was a compulsive liar. Continue reading →

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New Canada Commission to review MoJs

Posted on December 20, 2024 by andrew

England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand and Norway have one, and now Canada will have one too. Stubbornly rebuffing the many calls for a body like the Criminal Cases Review Commission (England), Australia remains without an independent body to review potential miscarriages of justice, as DR BOB MOLES reports.  Continue reading →

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