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, legal rules and political operatives. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride, as Margo Channing (Bette Davis in All About Eve) might say. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
The tone is measured, professional, but the content is explosive, exposing the litany of judicial errors that have contributed to Derek Bromley being stuck in jail for the past 40 years – for a murder conviction that has no valid legal basis. Flinders University legal academic Dr Bob Moles has compiled a 50 page report, concluding that the conviction rests on fraud: a failure to disclose the absence of relevant qualifications by the State pathologist, Dr Colin Manock. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
Call me naïve. It came as a shocking realisation, at 13:33 on May 16, 2024, to be exact. I’ve been wrong all this time. Before that moment, I actually imagined that the legal system, often mischaracterised as the justice system, had genuine concerns about correcting wrongful convictions. That’s why I started writing about the subject over a decade ago. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
What’s worse than the stigma of being labelled a rapist? Being unable to wipe the label clean. Why would anyone not try, if they claimed innocence? For Lehrmann, the label is a life sentence, even though it was applied by a civil, not criminal, court. Some suggest he shouldn’t appeal. They’re wrong. Continue reading
The following are some of the comments / excerpts in response to Andrew L. Urban’s article in The Spectator Australia on May 1, 2024, ‘Was Lehrmann’s presumption of innocence left in the lions’ den?’ Reader comments were taken down and disabled on May 2, 2024. There were no comments supporting Justice Lee’s finding that on the balance of probabilities Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins – and therefore he was not defamed by Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
Justice David Mossop of the ACT Supreme Court is the latest judge in Australia to make a bad decision in a criminal trial, by sentencing a 93 year old husband to nine years in prison for the mercy killing of Jean, his 92 year old wife, suffering from dementia. Continue reading
Judging by published comments, the public largely rejects Justice Lee’s judgement that on the balance of probabilities Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on Senator Reynolds’ Ministerial couch. We publish a selection to demonstrate. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
It was over dinner that a former senior Australian Federal Police investigator brought it up. A question no-one appears to have considered. Continue reading
New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in the landmark case that launched the #MeToo movement. Continue reading