Category Archives: Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser

Andrew L. Urban In a significant development in the afternoon of August 31, 2021, in the Sue Neill-Fraser case, Tasmanian Legislative Council member the Hon. Michael Gaffney MLC (Ind), Member for Mersey, devoted his first adjournment speech in 13 years … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. What’s with the taboo? Every Tasmanian I’ve spoken to agrees: people feel intimidated talking openly about the Sue Neill-Fraser case, the long-running miscarriage of justice that is a weeping sore on Tasmania’s legal system*. Perhaps that’s why … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. Arrested 12 years ago today, on August 20, 2009, for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell, Sue Neill-Fraser is still in Risdon Prison (awaiting the outcome of her last appeal, heard over five months ago), thanks … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban.  The cumulative effect of new evidence in the Etter/Selby dossier is devastating: we are left in no doubt that just about the entire machinery of criminal ‘justice’ in Tasmania failed Bob Chappell, Sue Neill-Fraser and the people … Continue reading →

Hugh Selby. How righting the wrong done to Sue Neill-Fraser can be done with speed, civility, and be a credit to the court and the legal profession. 

Andrew L. Urban. The last of the Etter/Selby investigative papers into the case of Sue Neill-Fraser reveal failure by police to meet basic exhibit standards, false evidence – and non-disclosure. They also raise questions about who knew about the broken … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. What the Attorney-General said is wrong; she does have the power to SEEK LEAVE to re-open the Sue Neill-Fraser appeal; and the DPP, Daryl Coates SC, must advise the Court of Criminal Appeal his answer to Estcourt … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. In an escalation of damning revelations (fifth batch), the spotlight shifts from the police investigation to then prosecutor, DPP Tim Ellis SC, and the ODPP, as lawyers continue to unpack the miscarriage of justice in the Sue … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban. Garbled English aside, Tasmania’s DPP misled the appeal court – perhaps unwittingly, but significantly – as the latest Etter/Selby submission to the Attorney-General reveals, with an extract from the transcript of Sue Neill-Fraser’s appeal before Tasmania’s Court … Continue reading →