Tasmania’s O’Farrell Review – questions raised by MP

Posted on November 26, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

A series of probing questions have been placed on the Legislative Council Notice Paper about the already disgraced O’Farrell Review into illegal surveillance in Risdon prison, a fallout of the Sue Neill-Fraser case.  Continue reading →

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NSW A-G’s prejudicial remarks in Folbigg case

Posted on November 18, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

As the second inquiry into the murder convictions of Kathleen Folbigg winds up its first week, we ask why NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman made his prejudicial remarks.  Continue reading →

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Why the courts have not silenced the uproar over Sue Neill-Fraser case

Posted on November 18, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Tasmania’s legal establishment wants to shut it down but the continuing uproar of dissent over the demonstrable wrongful conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser will not be silenced. As we show here, there is a great deal to uproar about.  Continue reading →

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MoJ Seminar in Hobart, November 24, 2022

Posted on November 17, 2022 by andrew

Legal professionals, politicians, police and the public have a chance to hear how the criminal justice system sausage is made at a seminar “Lifting the Lid on Miscarriages of Justice.” Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser injustice product of ‘our Tasmanian legal fraternity’

Posted on November 15, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Former Hobart prosecutor Tony Jacobs has reviewed the case of Sue Neill-Fraser and found many reasons for the conviction to be overturned, urging the Law Society to “help correct this injustice, the product of our Tasmanian legal fraternity.” On November 15, 2022, Independent member Michael Gaffney tabled the Jacobs documents in Tasmania’s Legislative Council – but the Attorney-General has refused all calls for an independent review.  Continue reading →

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Folbigg review starts – and extends into 2023

Posted on November 13, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

The much delayed second inquiry into the Kathleen Folbigg murder conviction begins this Monday, November 14, 2022. But in a disgraceful disregard for delivering justice in a timely manner, the inquiry won’t hear crucial evidence regarding the interpretation of her diaries until February 2023.  Continue reading →

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Review of illegal surveillance possibly illegal, too

Posted on November 11, 2022 by andrew

A media release by the Independent member for Nelson, Tasmania, reveals the O’Farrell Review into the illegal prison surveillance of Jeff Thompson would possibly be illegal itself. The following is a media release issued yesterday by Nelson Independent, Meg Webb, MLC. Continue reading →

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Kathleen Folbigg conviction next under microscope – others on the way

Posted on October 31, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

The high profile case of Kathleen Folbigg’s 2003 conviction for the murder of her very young children will be under the microscope again in a second inquiry starting November 14, 2022 (listed for two weeks), with former NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst AC KC, as commissioner, as announced in May 2022. It is one of several cases we are following which remain poised to challenge the murder convictions which we believe are wrongful: Sue Neill-Fraser, Robert Xie, Derek Bromley, Robert Farquharson. (See links menu at right).  Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser out on parole

Posted on October 4, 2022 by andrew

Sue Neill-Fraser was released on parole this morning and driven to the parole office in Hobart by her two daughters, Sarah Bowles and Emma Fraser-Meeker, reported the ABC.  Continue reading →

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The truth will set you free … from totalitarianism – Tasmania please note

Posted on October 3, 2022 by andrew

“When a society loses the desire to know the truth, that is a precursor to totalitarianism,” observed author, Holocaust survivor and political philosopher Hanna Arendt (1906 – 1975). Tasmanian society is now seeing that observation come closer to realisation around them.  If we look at the totalitarian-like behaviours of the joint enterprise that has arisen there consisting of the police, the courts, the bureaucrats, the political class (all largely unscrutinised by the local media), we can expect decisions such as the one last week which we have labelled the ‘Clayton’s review’ of police surveillance in prisons, triggered by the case of solicitor Jeff Thompson. Do you feel safe speaking out against them?  Continue reading →

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