Sofronoff doesn’t go far enough on disclosure reform – Selby

Posted on August 12, 2023 by andrew

The recently released Sofronoff Report into the ACT Criminal Justice System’s handling of the Brittany Higgins rape allegation against Bruce Lehrmann recommends legislation to codify the scope and content of the obligation of disclosure owed by the prosecution in criminal proceedings. That suggestion is too narrow, writes former ACT barrister HUGH SELBY. Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser book timely as prosecutors in spotlight

Posted on August 11, 2023 by andrew

“Mr Sofronoff deserves the nation’s gratitude for turning our minds to the next issue: the extent to which other prosecutors are sidelining fundamental principles in order to secure convictions …” The Australian, Wednesday, August 9, 2023.  Continue reading →

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SPECIAL REPORT – Prosecutors ‘straining impermissibly for a conviction’: eight examples

Posted on August 4, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Walter Sofronoff KC’s damning findings revealed this week of reprehensible behaviour by ACT DPP Shane Drumgold, is the tip of an iceberg that threatens the criminal justice system. In the words of judges, lawyers and legal academics, some of Australia’s other senior prosecutors also show a flagrant disregard for their obligations by ‘impermissibly straining for a conviction’.  Continue reading →

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Sofronoff report damns Drumgold in Higgins/Lehrmann inquiry

Posted on August 3, 2023 by andrew

2/8/2023: The report that was delivered to the ACT government on Monday (31/7/2023) but withheld from public release seems to have fallen into the hands of The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice. Their front page story reveals the damning findings by Walter Sofronoff KC.  Continue reading →

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Sofronoff report ready but release delayed by ACT Chief Minister; why?

Posted on July 31, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

It is delivered today, July 31, 2023, but the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr “currently intends” to release some or all of the Sofronoff inquiry report into the handling of the Brittany Higgins rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann and the abandoned trial, at the end of August. No reasons are given. None would be acceptable. Continue reading →

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Listen to Lynn, Attorney-General; the public is speaking

Posted on July 30, 2023 by andrew

This compelling and heartfelt letter from Hobart resident Lynn Giddings to Tasmania’s Attorney-General is representative of public demand for a Commission of Inquiry into the case of Sue Neill-Fraser. And below, Giddings witnessed how the jury had been left with a false impression about DNA in the latex glove from the crime scene. It wasn’t Sue Neill-Fraser’s.  Continue reading →

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Excuses by Tasmania’s Attorney-General to avoid a Commission of Inquiry into the case of Sue Neill-Fraser are indefensible

Posted on July 21, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Book him now. He’s moving south. Queensland last year, ACT this year…Tasmania next year? Walter Sofronoff KC will be available to chair a Commission of Inquiry into the case of Sue Neill-Fraser. Excuses by the Attorney-General to avoid one are indefensible.  Continue reading →

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THE EXONERATION PAPERS – SUE NEILL-FRASER

Posted on July 19, 2023 by andrew

The new book by investigative journalist, Andrew L. Urban, THE EXONERATION PAPERS – SUE NEILL-FRASER, disputes the Tasmanian Attorney-General’s justification for refusing the many requests for an inquiry into the controversial 2010 murder conviction. Urban also cites lawyers who present a dozen appealable grounds that have not been considered by the courts.  Continue reading →

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Is Victorian justice dependent on your politics?

Posted on July 1, 2023 by andrew

In the wake of ACT’s DPP Shane Drumgold’s public shaming for his handling of the Brittany Higgins rape allegation, Victoria’s DPP, Kerri Judd KC, is mauled for her refusal to lay charges in the (expensive) Lawyer X scandal. GERARD HENDERSON (in The Weekend Australian, July 1, 2023) reveals the troubling background that might explain why.  Continue reading →

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Has ICAC found Gladys Berejiklian Clayton’s corrupt?

Posted on June 29, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

June 29, 2023: Investigating a third NSW Premier, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has found former Premier Gladys Berejiklian engaged in ‘serious corrupt conduct’. But not corrupt enough to recommend the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions. It’s the corruption finding you have when you don’t have a corruption finding – a bit like Clayton’s, the non alcoholic drink you have when you are not having a drink, perhaps. Continue reading →

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