Monthly Archives: January 2020

Sue Neill-Fraser’s bitter sweet Australia Day

Posted on January 26, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. January 26, 2009 was the last Australia Day that Sue Neill-Fraser enjoyed in the true spirit of Australia, with a blustery, crowded and celebratory Hobart full of young and old, her partner Bob Chappell tinkering aboard their … Continue reading →

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Australia “limping behind UK, NZ, Canada” in appeal laws – Kirby

Posted on January 22, 2020 by andrew

“In Australia, two of the states and both mainland territories have not yet even decided to permit a second criminal appeal by leave on compelling evidence. And no jurisdiction has yet resolved to establish a Review Commission. What is it … Continue reading →

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Blueprint for a fairer system

Posted on January 19, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Before Walkley Award winning journalist and legal historian Evan Whitton died (5 March 1928 – 16 July 2018), I had the good fortune to exchange a few notes with him about miscarriages of justice. He had written … Continue reading →

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Justice derailed – Part 1

Posted on January 15, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. As 2020 begins, we look forward to Tasmania’s Supreme Court finally hearing Sue Neill-Fraser’s new appeal against her 2010 murder conviction in May. Also during the year, the NSW the Supreme Court is expected to hear Robert … Continue reading →

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Hobart vigil for Bob Chappell & Sue Neill-Fraser

Posted on January 13, 2020 by andrew

The support group for Sue Neill-Fraser, convicted of the murder of her partner Bob Chappell on Australia Day, 2009, is organising a vigil on the Parliament Lawns in Hobart. “The vigil is to remember Bob Chappell and to show our … Continue reading →

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Missed clues in Sue Neill-Fraser’s Statutory Declaration

Posted on January 7, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Eleven years ago this month, at 12.10pm on Friday, January 28, 2009, a day after her partner Bob Chappell had disappeared from their yacht, Four Winds, Sue Neill-Fraser began making a Statutory Declaration at her Allison Street … Continue reading →

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