Author Archives: andrew

A tendency to wrongful convictions?

Posted on June 12, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Is justice served when a false accusation of sexual abuse is supported by another false accusation of sexual abuse and the court accepts the second accusation as tendency evidence proving wrongdoing? A preliminary assessment of his case … Continue reading →

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Sofronoff the empathic judge who does no ‘unnecessary harm’ – next task in Tasmania?

Posted on June 11, 2023 by andrew

“Walter Sofronoff is an extraordinary man, and an extraordinary judge, one whose empathy other judges should seek to emulate,” writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY in Canberra City News, as he reveals how often the legal profession falls short of that quality, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser | 10 Comments

Fiona Brown and the Lehrmann/Higgins fiasco: no good deed shall go unpunished

Posted on June 10, 2023 by andrew

Yet another front page of The Australian (Weekend, June 10/11, 2023) devoted almost entirely to the disastrous fallout from Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations and subsequent abandoned trial, reveals how staffer Fiona Brown’s good deeds didn’t go unpunished… 

Posted in Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 7 Comments

Bruce Lehrmann was ammunition for war on Morrison

Posted on June 8, 2023 by andrew

Channel 7’s Spotlight (June 4, 2023) interview with Bruce Lehrmann not only gave him a chance to firmly and publicly deny the rape allegations against him by Brittany Higgins, but revealed the plot in which he was the ammunition for … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 14 Comments

Neill-Fraser supporters cite Folbigg pardon in call for inquiry

Posted on June 6, 2023 by andrew

Rosie Crumpton-Crook, President of the Neill-Fraser Support Group, today said in a statement to media that: “Supporters of Sue Neill-Fraser welcomed the news that Kathleen Folbigg had been pardoned, and we wish her well. The case of Susan Neill-Fraser in … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser | 19 Comments

Folbigg freed, not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, Academy of Science calls for CCRC

Posted on June 5, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban A decision by the NSW Attorney-General that should have been made four years ago by his predecessor has seen Kathleen Folbigg freed this morning on being granted a pardon by the Governor, on the recommendation of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg, CCRC | 15 Comments

Strategising a rape claim

Posted on June 5, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The public already knew that Bruce Lehrmann denies raping Brittany Higgins in Minister Linda Reynolds’ parliamentary office on March 23, 2019. He confidently confirmed his denial in Channel 7’s Spotlight with Liam Bartlett (Sunday, June 4, 2023). … Continue reading →

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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 →

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