Will the legal system in Australia make 2022 a year of reform?

Posted on January 4, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L Urban.

A legal system not subject to independent scrutiny is weakened, inhibited from needed reform, and hindered in the evolution to keep in step with other institutions and community values.  Continue reading →

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Another ‘bunny boiler’ who must be believed

Posted on January 2, 2022 by andrew

Bettina Arndt

Four days before Christmas (2021) one of our elite Melbourne universities committed an act of total bastardry. They announced they were firing a tutor working in one of their colleges. His employment was terminated forthwith – just in time for the festive season.  Continue reading →

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Pulitzer-winning Greenwald exposes anti-Assange lies on MSNBC

Posted on December 17, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

December 17, 2021: Deconstructing a two minute clip from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald reveals Joe Scarborough’s anti-Assange lies, as Assange awaits extradition from the UK to the US – on charges Greenwald debunks.  Continue reading →

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Hobart rally calling for Sue Neill-Fraser inquiry

Posted on December 16, 2021 by andrew

Sue Neill-Fraser supporters will hold a rally on Saturday December 18, 2021, calling for an inquiry into her case. Speakers at the Rally will commence at 11.00am and include Andrew Wilkie MP, Lara Giddings, former Tasmanian Premier, and Sarah Bowles, Sue Neill-Fraser’s daughter.   Continue reading →

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NSW A-G in ‘state sanctioned abuse’ over Folbigg

Posted on December 15, 2021 by andrew

A ground-breaking development within clinical practice has prompted Kathleen Folbigg’s lawyer Rhanee Rego to accuse NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman of failing to act on the evidence “which unequivocally supports innocence” without anything to contradict it. She told Lawyers Weekly that the Attorney is engaged in “state-sanctioned abuse”.  Continue reading →

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Canadian Commission delivers report to establish MoJ Commission

Posted on December 14, 2021 by andrew

Far reaching recommendations that go well beyond anything so far established in other countries are contained in the report by the Canadian Commission advising the government on the establishment of a Criminal Cases Review Commission, including that the new body work actively in partnership with existing and new Innocence Projects, as recommended by Australian legal academics Bob Moles and Bibi Sangha.  Continue reading →

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Why Sue Neill-Fraser jury verdict is unsafe

Posted on December 8, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

In the long-running matter of Sue Neill-Fraser’s 2010 murder conviction, some people still rely on the jury’s guilty verdict; but a jury’s verdict is (usually) based on the facts and evidence presented to them. What might have convinced this jury? Why is the verdict unsafe? Continue reading →

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ABC RN Law Report guests consider the DNA ‘possibilities’ after dismissal of Sue Neill-Fraser appeal

Posted on December 7, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. 

Meaghan Vass’ DNA deposit on the Four Winds being the sole focus of Sue Neill-Fraser’s second appeal (decision announced November 30, 2021), it was central to the ABC RN’s 30 minute Law Report program on Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Perhaps inadvertently, it showed the weakness of the dismissal of the appeal. Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal judges contribute to catastrophic failure of the Tasmanian justice system

Posted on December 6, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.

Legal errors and mistakes in the majority judges’ reasoning in dismissing Sue Neill-Fraser’s latest appeal against her murder conviction further disgrace Tasmania’s legal system, bringing to six the judges in this case to have contributed to a catastrophic failure of the justice system. (Trial: Blow J; first appeal: Crawford CJ, Tennent & Porter JJ; second appeal; Wood & Pearce JJ) Continue reading →

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ACT cop Scott White found guilty of perjury – the flipside of a wrongful conviction

Posted on December 5, 2021 by andrew

Dan Jones was imprisoned as a result of false allegations made by his ex girlfriend Sara Jane Parkinson and her crooked ACT cop boyfriend, Scott White, in March 2014. Parkinson was finally caught out and sent to prison – and last week Scott White was finally found guilty of perjury. Continue reading →

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