Why … ?

Posted on March 31, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

In a criminal legal system that relies for legitimacy on uniformity of application and consistency of outcomes, apparent anomalies stand out.  Continue reading →

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Derek Bromley granted parole after 40 years

Posted on March 28, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 Granting Derek Bromley’s bail application on March 27, 2024, 40 years after his 1984 murder conviction, parole board chair Frances Nelson KC commented: “He continues to maintain his innocence. He’s entitled to do that, it’s not for us to retry the issue.” Nor was it for South Australia’s appeal court to do to retry the issue, but they did in June 2018 – flouting the law, according to legal academics.  Continue reading →

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Here come the judge … was Lehrmann defamed?

Posted on March 21, 2024 by andrew

Two weeks from today, at 10.15 am, April 4, 2024, Justice Lee of the Federal Court will hand down his judgement in one of the most consequential cases in contemporary Australia: the defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann against Network TEN and Lisa Wilkinson, in the carnage known as the Brittany Higgins case.  Continue reading →

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Young Liberals President disinvites Bettina Arndt – event cancelled

Posted on March 14, 2024 by andrew

NSW Young Liberals president Chanum Torres has given no reason for disinviting Bettina Arndt from a panel discussion organised by Sydney University Conservative Club planned for Tuesday, March 19, 2024, which included Chris Merritt, Vice President of the Rule of Law Institute & legal affairs columnist and myself.  Continue reading →

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Lawfare in Australia – with Chris Merritt and Andrew L. Urban – CANCELLED

Posted on March 11, 2024 by andrew

A panel discussion followed by Q&A will examine the case of Brittany Higgins v Bruce Lehrman at a free seminar at the University of Sydney, organised by the University’s Conservative Club, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.  Continue reading →

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Jurors behaving badly

Posted on March 10, 2024 by andrew

Answering a question on Quora*, What things have you accidentally overheard? Do you regret hearing them? former US criminal trial attorney BRIAN KEARNEY, told the following story about a jury deliberation process he accidentally overheard. Warning: don’t read this before your trial by jury.  Continue reading →

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Rape or sour grapes?

Posted on March 9, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 The day before the rape trial began last month, the complainant’s deception came to light: she had rehearsed a script for a phone call to manipulate the accused into making admissions to a rape that didn’t happen. Calls for a special commission to review decisions by prosecutors are growing louder, following several other rape allegations are found to be false.  Continue reading →

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Drumgold loses on 7 of 8 grounds but ACT taxpayers to pay his costs

Posted on March 5, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

In the case of Drumgold v Sofronoff Board of Inquiry … seven of Shane Drumgold’s eight grounds of complaint against Walter Sofronoff’s report were dismissed – yet his costs are to be paid by ACT taxpayers … the government, his former employer. Why? Continue reading →

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Noel Greenaway – the evidence in his defence

Posted on March 1, 2024 by andrew

The following excerpt from PRESUMPTION OF EVIL, Andrew L. Urban’s latest book, challenges Greenaway’s convictions for the sexual and physical abuse of teenage girls at Parramatta Girls Training School nearly half a century before the trial.  Continue reading →

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Justice denied – and painted

Posted on February 29, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Striking intimate portraits in oil on canvas capturing faces of wrongfully convicted and those advocating for them, by Queensland artist Sky Parra, will be displayed in the DENIED exhibition at Salamanca Art Centre’s Social Gallery, (67 Salamanca Place, Hobart) in August – September this year.  Continue reading →

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