Wrongful Convictions Report

She claims she repeatedly warned prosecutors she had no recollection of the incident (alleged rape) and did not believe her testimony alone could secure a guilty conviction. She assumed they were sitting on a pile of evidence that would result in a favourable verdict but that pile never emerged, reports Ellie Dudley in The Australian.  Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban

Everyone knows that a woman’s hair is her crowning glory. Sall Grover of Giggle fame has great hair. The Tickle person definitely does not. Even a former Family Court judge – a woman – is now challenging the Federal Court for its “extraordinary overreach” to find that the ordinary meaning of “woman” includes a biological male. Continue reading →

ADRIAN BERTINO-CLARKE is the founder of FIA Labs and the creator of LIA Apex, a governed legal intelligence workspace being developed with miscarriage-of-justice work in mind. LIA Apex is designed to help lawyers, investigators, innocence advocates, journalists, academics, and review bodies organise complex case records, test prosecution theories, challenge expert evidence, identify unresolved doubt, and preserve reviewable governance logs. It is not an innocence machine or a substitute for lawyers; it is a tool for making legal reasoning more disciplined, transparent, and accountable.  Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban

Among all the uproar over the Federal Court’s stunning backhander to women in the Tickle v Giggle case, one question to which I have not found an answer is: why? Why would the Tickle person want to be the sole biological male among biological women in an online space, an app, for women? And why would rejection lead to an ugly legal confrontation? Why was Tickle tickled pink at the court’s decision, without a word of sympathy, empathy or just plain human regard, for the women who were clearly distraught. It’s all one question, though. WHY?  Continue reading →