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Juries or Judges – or both?

Posted on March 19, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. As learned legal practitioners and academics will tell you, there are convincing arguments for both jury trials and judge-only trials. There is one important difference – judges must give reasons for their decisions – juries must not. … Continue reading →

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Accepting injustice as ‘price’ for justice?

Posted on March 17, 2021 by andrew

If silence is complicity – in the face of wrong doing – accepting injustice in the course of seeking justice is worse, argues ANDREW L. URBAN, in response to Theo Theophanous, commentator and former Victorian government minister, who says it … Continue reading →

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Keep Vass off the boat!

Posted on March 16, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The legal establishment in Tasmania wants to keep Meaghan Vass ‘off the boat’, metaphorically speaking, because her eye witness testimony of Bob Chappell’s murder on Four Winds contradicts the prosecution’s case against Sue Neill-Fraser. But then how … Continue reading →

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Witness (un)protection

Posted on March 15, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The broken promise that caused Meaghan Vass to contradict herself in court and damage the appeal against the murder conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser, as revealed by Vass confidante, Andrea (Andy) Brown.

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Derek Bromley & the devil’s presence

Posted on March 14, 2021 by andrew

You could say it was a case of the eye witness from hell, whose vision of the ‘devil’s presence’ notwithstanding, helped convict Derek Bromley of murder in 1984. How could it have happened? Bromley’s friend and supporter ROBYN MILERA explains … Continue reading →

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Red flag about the blue rag

Posted on March 12, 2021 by andrew

A buzz of conversation swirled on our comments thread since the March 10, 2021 publication of our story, Sue Neill-Fraser – conviction rests on dark fantasy, raising a red flag about the blue rag from the crime scene on Four … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser – conviction rests on a dark fantasy

Posted on March 10, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. As the late author and thinker Christopher Hitchens famously noted, ‘What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.’ Not in the Tasmanian legal system, it can’t. Hence the tortuous, 11-year legal journey of Sue … Continue reading →

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Kathleen Folbigg – science to the rescue … maybe

Posted on March 9, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Science – the word, that is – has been bandied about a lot lately, from climate change arguments to Covid restrictions and in the criminal justice system. Now the latter faces a major test: will our legal … Continue reading →

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Vass testimony & the courtroom war over DNA

Posted on March 3, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. On Tuesday, DPP Daryl Coates SC, from whom the soured milk of human unkindness oozed like puss, was relentless in exploiting the vulnerability of Meaghan Vass and her distressing emotional unraveling to achieve his objective: damage or … Continue reading →

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Meaghan Vass evidence ‘unreliable’, focus on DNA

Posted on March 2, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Sue Neill-Fraser’s legal team conceded before lunch on Day 2 of the appeal against her murder convction, that Meaghan Vass, highly stressed and agitated from the beginning, was delivering testimony during cross examination that would not be … Continue reading →

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