Author Archives: andrew

What will Sofronoff KC say? Public hearings end in the Higgins/Lehrmann inquiry

Posted on June 2, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The last witness on Thursday, June 1, 2023, in the public hearings of the ACT Board of Inquiry chaired by former judge Walter Sofronoff KC was Heidi Yates, the Victims of Crime Commissioner, made famous and recognisable … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 12 Comments

Reasonable doubt … but Folbigg still has to wait in jail

Posted on June 1, 2023 by andrew

NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley has resisted calls from MPs to free Kathleen, 55,  immediately from prison after the state’s top prosecutor conceded new evidence had created reasonable doubt about her convictions over the deaths of her children,  according to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg | 8 Comments

Drumgold gone as DPP

Posted on May 18, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. It didn’t take long. After the first seven days of public hearings at the Board of Inquiry chaired by Walter Sofronoff KC into the handling of the Brittany Higgins allegation of rape against Bruce Lehrmann, its first … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 10 Comments

DPP Drumgold wrong, but not sorry at Sofronoff inquiry

Posted on May 13, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Bruce Lehrmann sat quietly in a back corner of the anodyne, lawyer-filled room in Canberra last week where former judge Walter Sofronoff KC is chairing the inquiry into the hot mess that grew out of the Brittany … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 8 Comments

Inquiry submissions debunk Sue Neill-Fraser conviction

Posted on May 9, 2023 by andrew

Submissions by Civil Liberties Australia, academic and author John Biggs AM and writer & court observer Jennie Herrera are just three of the submissions to Tasmania’s Legislative Council’s Committee on Adult Imprisonment and Youth Detention Matters that directly attack the … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser | 8 Comments

Why Mark Speakman is the wrong man to lead the NSW Liberals

Posted on April 22, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban There is no such thing, I don’t suppose, as a ‘wrongful leader’ but if there were, I would nominate Mark Speakman, the recently elected leader of the NSW Liberal Party. This is my ‘j’accuse’ …

Posted in Case 06 'Paul' | 10 Comments

Chris Minns should reinstate rule of law re ICAC

Posted on April 21, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Former NSW premiers Barry O’Farrell, Mike Baird and Dominic Perrottet all failed to protect the rule of law as it relates to ICAC; “The law was changed to protect wrongdoers,” and new Premier Chris Minns has a … Continue reading →

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Bromley still in the slow lane of justice

Posted on April 4, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It’s been five years since the South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal refused Derek Bromley leave to appeal his 1984 murder conviction, which leads to his current application to The High Court – which has set aside … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 05 Derek Bromley | 15 Comments

‘I know we’re innocent … these things just did not happen’

Posted on April 1, 2023 by andrew

A jailed NSW couple protest their innocence as a new podcast – Shadow of Doubt – investigates their convictions for ‘depraved’ abuse. By RICHARD GUILLIATT in The Weekend Australian (April 1&2, 2023) 

Posted in Case 21 'Mr & Mrs X', General articles | 7 Comments

Marco Rusterholz and the question of doubt

Posted on March 30, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban  A comment posted by reader Nick Albu (if that is his real name) raises a number of issues to challenge Marco Rusterholz’s claim of innocence, in the wake of his double 2015 murder conviction and failed appeal … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 19 Marco Rusterholz | 11 Comments