Andrew L. Urban.
Scaremongering over AI is rampant. So I asked LIA (legally trained) and also Grok: Under what if any legal constraints do you operate? Do you refuse, like the army, say, to respond to requests that are illegal in the jurisdiction in which such requests are made? Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
A sufficiently rigorous pre-trial assessment by a legally trained AI agent can identify important weaknesses in the prosecution theory before trial. Such a process can be used by counsel for either side as a structured pre-trial viability test. In fact, that is one of its most useful applications and has the potential to help avoid wrongful convictions. Continue reading
When he was South Australia’s Solicitor General (2003 – 2008), Chris Kourakis made “a disturbing, incorrect decision, which resulted in [Henry] Keogh’s continued incarceration,” wrote Adelade University legal academic Bob Moles. In fact it cost Keogh 10 more years in prison … until his acquittal in December 2014. Continue reading
“Consistent with” has probably done more quiet damage in this field than any single dishonest witness. A system that does not flinch at it is not a review tool. It is a typist,” writes ADRIAN BERTINO-CLARKE, President & CEO, FIA Labs / Federated Intel AI LLC, on the launch of his latest legally trained AI tool: LIA Pro, a serious new legal tool coming at a time when concerned attention is focused on AI in general and in the legal context in particular. Continue reading
In this transcript of the heart-wrenching 60 Minutes interview (Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, by Ross Douthat, Michael Karzis) Patrick Clancy says “it was her mental illness … (which) has this ability to be tragically deceptive”. In any case, he gave her his forgiveness. He also reveals that “There was a time where I– I didn’t think I would live to see my 35th birthday. And I was completely fine with it.” Continue reading
Arguably the most hotly debated result in a murder trial anywhere in the world, the Lindsay Clancy case pits angry mobs calling for her guilt against those who agree with DR SALLY SATEL, a psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine, who was hoping for an acquittal and commitment to a mental facility because, in her clinical opinion, psychosis drove Clancy to kill. She explains why, in this article published in The Free Press, where it attracted nearly 1700 comments. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
“You failed in your duty to alert the jury to the problems with your case. Your duty is not to chase convictions but to present your case fairly. You assumed my client was guilty and set out to prove that.” With those words, Barry McClintock SC, damned NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Mark Tedeschi, who was now the defendant as Gordon Wood sued Tedeschi and the State of NSW for malicious prosecution. I saw it first hand as I watched McClintock on March 20, 2017, the last day of the trial, making a number of raids on Tedeschi’s behaviour at trial. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban. Continue reading
On April 15, 2026, we published the post Special Forces Operator Scott Jones: The Truth About Ben Roberts-Smith, with a link to Sam Bamford’s must-watch 2 Worlds Collide podcast in which Special Forces Operator Scott Jones recounts his first-hand experiences near and alongside Ben Roberts-Smith. We have now obtained the transcript and publish (most of) it to help readers to more closely analyse what Scott Jones said and note the references to Andrew Hastie, currently in the news, in the context of his relevance to the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Continue reading
On Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 15, 2026), it took the Supreme Court’s Justice Estcourt less than an hour (a millisecond in law time) to extinguish the Tasmanian Parole Board’s restrictive parole condition that would have prevented Sue Neill-Fraser from proclaiming her innocence. Continue reading