Category Archives: Case 04 Gordon Wood

Pressing need for law reforms ignored – or resisted?

Posted on March 11, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban What reforms has the criminal justice system undertaken in the wake of the wrongful convictions decades ago of Lindy Chamberlain, Derek Bromley, Henry Keogh, Andrew Mallard, Gordon Wood and – we say, Sue Neill-Fraser in 2010, Robert Xie … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 02 Henry Keogh, Case 04 Gordon Wood, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 22 Noel Greenaway | 11 Comments

Suspicion – fuelled by media – can lead to Wrongful Convictions

Posted on March 3, 2025 by andrew

Public suspicion can (mis)lead courts & juries to miscarriages of justice, as contributor PETER GILL finds.

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 02 Henry Keogh, Case 04 Gordon Wood, Case 06 'Paul', Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 13 Robert Farquharson, Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg | 32 Comments

Cross checking

Posted on October 21, 2024 by andrew

You can skip the tables but you can’t skip the conclusions in this detailed, gripping investigation by an interested party (prefers not to be named) of the ‘expert testimony’ by (now retired) Associate Professor Rod Cross presented by Mark Tedeschi … Continue reading →

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Malpractice, Incompetence And Lies: the Manock curse – Part 2

Posted on February 2, 2023 by andrew

Journalist Andrew L. Urban and retired barrister Kevin Borrick KC reveal how South Australia’s legal fraternity contributed to the ongoing scandal that began with the unqualified forensic pathologist Dr Colin Manock and spread like cancer, infecting the entire system. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 02 Henry Keogh, Case 03 David Szach, Case 04 Gordon Wood, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Forensic evidence, General articles | 22 Comments

Gordon Wood back in court to press his claim of malicious prosecution

Posted on November 19, 2019 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Three floors above the court room where 14 months earlier NSW Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Fullerton demolished Mark Tedeschi QC’s prosecution of Gordon Wood for being “disingenuous” and “impermissibly straining for a conviction” (for murder) yet dismissed … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wood appeal in shadow of prosecutorial malaise

Posted on November 14, 2019 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Gordon Wood’s appeal against his failed malicious prosecution bid last year begins in Sydney’s Supreme Court on Monday, November 18, 2019, in the shadow of a new book by former DPP Nicholas Cowdrey (Frank and Fearless, New … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wood v NSW: nearly malicious?

Posted on August 14, 2018 by andrew

In the wake of Justice Fullerton’s judgement (10/8/2018) that saw Gordon Wood’s claim for malicious prosecution against the State of NSW fail, Andrew L. Urban examines crucial parts of the judgement and finds them troubling. It could be argued that … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wood loses malicious claim

Posted on August 10, 2018 by andrew

By Andrew L. Urban Although Justice Fullerton offers serious criticisms of now retired Senior prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC’s ‘disingenuous’ behaviour at the 2012 trial, and the reasons for her decision at 500 pages make up the equivalent of a book, … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wood – convicted of murder in 2008, acquitted in 2012, suing the State in 2017/18

Posted on February 17, 2018 by andrew

By Andrew L. Urban. Gordon Wood is suing the State of NSW and the DPP for malicious prosecution. The trial was held in March 2017, before Justice Elizabeth Fullerton. Judgement is still awaited at time of writing (February 17, 2018) … Continue reading →

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