Free Event: Andrew L. Urban, October 16, 2024

Andrew Urban, creator and presenter of Front Up, the award winning social documentary program, is speaking at the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, on October 16, 2024. Continue reading

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Presumption of Evil book available at Presumption of Innocence conference

Paperback and hardcover editions of Andrew L. Urban’s exposé, Presumption of EvilNoel Greenaway, sexual abuser or collateral damage? are now available on Amazon, coinciding with the August 31, 2024 conference in Sydney, Restoring The Presumption of Innocence.   Continue reading

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Judges split 2:1 to uphold ICAC’s ruling on Berejiklian

Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her appeal to overturn ICAC’s findings that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”.  Continue reading

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Reynolds claim: the plot allegation behind Higgins’ rape allegation

Andrew L. Urban.

“The Plan … started long before Lisa Wilkinson’s infamous Project interview in February 2021. Shortly after meeting Sharaz in May 2020 – some 14 months after the alleged rape – Higgins crafted a note about an ‘anatomy of a political sex scandal’,” as reported in The Australian (9/7/2024)  Continue reading

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How can men prove their innocence ?

Andrew L. Urban.

Sexual assault, what people think of as rape and sexual intercourse without consent are not really the same thing, yet they are stapled together in the eyes of the law. The entire subject is one of the hottest issues in the public square.# The Law Reform Commission is even looking at how convictions can be increased by lowering the bar for prosecution. Is that wise? Is that consistent with the presumption of innocence, the onus of proof on the Crown – and with justice?  Continue reading

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Should we lower the bar to get ‘justice’?

Andrew L. Urban.

Well now, the Law Reform Commission, which has never looked at reforms that might minimise wrongful convictions, is conducting a probe into the nation’s sexual assault laws to examine whether civil ­remedies, with lower standards of proof, can “bring justice for complainants”. And presiding is Australian Law Reform Commission president Mordecai Bromberg, who in Employment/Industrial Relations cases (2018-2020) found in favour of the union 10 out of 11 times, according to a 2021 Menzies Research Centre (MRC) report on Judicial Impartiality.  Continue reading

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“Wrongheaded narcissists and zealots” threaten rule of law – Sofronoff

Andrew L. Urban.

The risks to the rule of law in Australia are subtle and internal and “I do not believe that there are any risks to our way of life in terms of the rule of law from the inclusion of immigrants,” said Walter Sofronoff KC in his Robin Speed Memorial address to the Rule of Law Education Centre (June 13, 2024). “It will come from wrongheaded narcissists and zealots…”  Continue reading

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Lucy Letby: Did she do it?

Andrew L. Urban,

In just under 80 minutes, the audio version of the New Yorker’s investigative piece about the Lucy Letby case provides a thorough expose of the hysterical miscarriage of justice that an entire legal system has managed. You can read it in full, too.  Continue reading

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Case against Farquharson far fetched

Andrew L. Urban

In The Science of Murder, the 60 Minutes investigation on Sunday June 2, 2024, the science in question was medical science: how new evidence to support Robert Farquharson’s claim of cough syncope as the cause of the accident that led to the drowning of his three sons in a dam should trigger a new look at his murder conviction. But one question 60 Minutes did not explore – and neither had the police.  Continue reading

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Bruce Lehrmann “is not a rapist” – Rule of Law Institute

Andrew L. Urban

Bruce Lehrmann has not been convicted of rape – yet his name and reputation have suffered as if he had been. It was in the civil proceedings that Justice Lee ruled in favour of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson’s claim that their allegations of Lehrmann raping Brittany Higgins was not defamatory but ‘probably’ true … on the balance of probabilities. All the while Lehrmann maintains his innocence – and has just lodged an application to appeal Lee’s judgement.  Continue reading

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