Category Archives: Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser

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 →

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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

Bungled: three of the murder cases failed by the legal system

Posted on February 23, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban With a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour, the legal system has utterly failed to deliver justice and to correct its mistakes in these three examples of wrongful murder convictions, according to our investigations. 

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 11 Robert Xie | 9 Comments

Skeletons in the legal closet – look inside

Posted on May 27, 2024 by andrew

They are prisoners. But they are wrongfully convicted, as we have shown here and elsewhere, supported by legal argument. They are skeletons in the legal closet; catastrophic failures- – but the legal system seems unable and/or unwilling to admit error … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 13 Robert Farquharson, Case 19 Marco Rusterholz, Case 22 Noel Greenaway | 4 Comments

The Sofronoff Express at Platform ‘Speed’

Posted on May 24, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff express in what promises to be a historic and relevant journey into pretty wild legal territory. That territory is strewn with the carcasses of legal reputations, … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 4 Comments

Downside of Lyn’s Law

Posted on May 11, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban  Convicted murderers have a choice: reveal the whereabouts of their victims’ bodies or lose access to parole. Wrongfully convicted murderers have no such choice. 

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Respect is earned; so is disrespect, Your Honour

Posted on April 2, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. In a timely warning to his fellow judges, High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler has raised concerns that increasing media “attacks” made on individual judges may reflect on the judiciary as a whole, saying judges need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 06 'Paul', Case 07 George Pell, Case 11 Robert Xie | 10 Comments

Tasmania: new Sheriff, same old cover up

Posted on November 15, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban There is a new sheriff in Hobart town: Attorney-General Guy Barnett was appointed (in turbulent circumstances) to succeed Elise Archer in October 2023. But after years of stonewalling on calls for an inquiry into the murder conviction … Continue reading →

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A decade of denial, Tasmania still a legal laughing stock

Posted on September 3, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. It was 10 years ago: “This case calls for an inquiry,” said the late and great defence barrister Chester Porter KC, after a public screening (at Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema) of Shadow of Doubt, Eve Ash’s documentary about … Continue reading →

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Imagining what Tasmanian justice might try to be

Posted on August 31, 2023 by andrew

Today is the second anniversary of the tabling of papers in the Tasmanian Legislative Council that dissect many serious problems with the investigation and prosecution of Sue Neill-Fraser for the 2009 Australia Day murder of her partner, but Tasmanian media … Continue reading →

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