Category Archives: General articles

Andrew L. Urban. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists killed, raped and tortured young Israelis in a massacre of some 1200 and took some 240 hostages into their tunnels in Gaza. On October 15, 1894, French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus, … Continue reading →

Justice may be blind, but it should not be allowed to take three years to find its glasses, writes STEVEN  FENNELL, prompted by the story of the feud between NSW Chief Justice Bell who is irked by Federal Court Justice … Continue reading →

Janet Albrechtsen, Stephen Rice (The Australian), with cynical comments by Andrew L. Urban. The simmering feud between two of Australia’s most influential judges has burst into the open again, with NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell blasting Federal Court judge Ian … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban.  Scaremongering over AI is rampant. So I asked LIA (legally trained) and also Grok: Under what if any legal constraints do you operate? Do you refuse, like the army, say, to respond to requests that are illegal … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. A sufficiently rigorous pre-trial assessment by a legally trained AI agent can identify important weaknesses in the prosecution theory before trial. Such a process can be used by counsel for either side as a structured pre-trial viability … Continue reading →

“Consistent with” has probably done more quiet damage in this field than any single dishonest witness. A system that does not flinch at it is not a review tool. It is a typist,” writes ADRIAN BERTINO-CLARKE, President & CEO, FIA … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban.

Former Canberra academic Rick McGary was last year found guilty of two counts of sexual assault over incidents against separate complainants in 2016 and 2020, but acquitted of a third count. The Court of Appeal has now set aside the … Continue reading →

Will the AI machinery just drive faster towards wrong conclusions or can Australia avoid replacing human fallibility with digital damnation, asks STEVEN FENNELL. Today, for now, a wrongful conviction requires humans to make mistakes. That is, admittedly, inefficient. A police … Continue reading →

Prompted by our report ‘ ‘Unlawful’: Lehrmann slams secret corruption hearings, STEVEN FENNELL, who was acquitted of murder by the High Court, digs into the dangers of preventing an investigated person from speaking publicly.