Category Archives: Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg

Folbigg’s lawyer (also) questions the system

Posted on February 12, 2024 by andrew

It has taken two lawyers working pro bono, lifelong friends who won’t give up, experts who worked for free, strong supporters behind the scenes and much more. What does this say about our system if we need all of this … Continue reading →

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Will the legal system learn from Folbigg, have the guts for reform?

Posted on December 21, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The question of the title is posed without optimism. The legal system has no proud history of reform. All three past Attorneys-General have ignored or rebuffed calls for a Criminal Cases Review Commission network in Australia. Kathleen … Continue reading →

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Folbigg’s four baby deaths convictions quashed on Appeal

Posted on December 14, 2023 by andrew

After a month of deliberation the NSW Appeal court has quashed Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions for three counts of murder, one count of manslaughter, and one count of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. She has spent 20 years in jail and … Continue reading →

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The justice of science for Folbigg

Posted on November 10, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Kathleen Folbigg’s case is finally heading to the Appeals Court where it is expected her convictions for the murder of her children will be quashed, after findings in the latest inquiry, completed earlier this year, digested the … Continue reading →

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A key piece of criminal justice infrastructure is missing

Posted on June 21, 2023 by andrew

Professor David Hamer and Dr Andrew Dyer from Sydney Law School explain why Kathleen Folbigg’s pardon points to the need for a Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in Australia. 

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When pigs do fly: the Crown proved wrong in Folbigg case

Posted on June 18, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. At the murder trial of Kathleen Folbigg in 2003, prosecutor Mark Tedeschi compared the likelihood of four children in the same family dying of natural causes to pigs flying. It was the Crown’s alternative to relying on … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Folbigg diaries a “dump” of her emotions

Posted on February 15, 2023 by andrew

Convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg told a close friend she used her incriminating diaries to “dump” her negative emotions in her grief and blamed herself, feeling that she had “failed as a mother, a woman”, letters tendered in an inquiry … Continue reading →

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Duty of disclosure lasts forever

Posted on December 23, 2022 by andrew

The duty of disclosure of “all matters within their knowledge” applies to all those who represent the Crown – and is a duty in perpetuity, write BIBI SANGHA and Dr BOB MOLES of Flinders University, in their December 21, 2022, … Continue reading →

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