Andrew L. Urban
With a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour, the legal system has utterly failed to deliver justice and to correct its mistakes in these three examples of wrongful murder convictions, according to our investigations. Continue reading
This article was published at Fr. Gordon MacRae’s blog in 2023. It sat there for over a year entirely unnoticed. Then on Wednesday February 12, 2024, its author, CLAIRE BEST emailed a link to it to the head of a New Hampshire coalition against corruption in the courts. It has since attracted world wide attention. Continue reading
Detectives from the Financial Crimes Squad have charged seven people following the discovery of fraudulent sexual abuse compensation claims in a scheme which has paid out over $1 billion in claims to date. Continue reading
This 25:27 minute podcast explores the complex case of Noel Greenaway, a former school superintendent accused of decades-old abuse, highlighting the challenges of balancing victim belief with the presumption of innocence.
Andrew L. Urban
An article compiled by AI states that “Steven Fennell is suing the Queensland government and police for malicious prosecution, misfeasance in public office, and abuse of process. Fennell was wrongfully convicted of murdering his grandmother, Mrs Watson, and spent time in prison. In September 2019, the High Court of Australia quashed his convictions.” But Mrs Watson was not his grandmother. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban
There should be an equivalent of the first principle of the doctors’ Hippocratic Oath for lawyers and judges – the entire legal system in fact: ‘first, do no harm.’ But there isn’t. For example, in the case of R v RB, NSW District Court judge Sean Grant explained that section 293 of the Criminal Procedure Act prevented a jury from being told that a complainant in a sexual assault prosecution was a compulsive liar. Continue reading
England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand and Norway have one, and now Canada will have one too. Stubbornly rebuffing the many calls for a body like the Criminal Cases Review Commission (England), Australia remains without an independent body to review potential miscarriages of justice, as DR BOB MOLES reports. Continue reading
“The lawyer who may knock over one of the worst miscarriages of justice in Australia may not even need to be a criminal lawyer… just a basic understanding of civil procedure may be all that is necessary.” Flinders University legal academic DR BOB MOLES examines a simpler way to overturn wrongful convictions in the Colin Manock scandal. “And when that is successful, it will lead to the overturning of another 400 similar and very important cases. In addition to a class action for another 10,000 cases.” Continue reading
In an interview with former NSW police prosecutor Richard McDonald, BETTINA ARNDT hears about “a system captured by ideology, where police are discouraged from properly investigating sexual assault and domestic violence claims.” Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban
Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal against his failed defamation case against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson will raise over 700 inconsistencies in Justice Lee’s judgement and more than 300 alleged lies told by his rape accuser Brittany Higgins across the criminal trial (abandoned), the defamation trial, Network 10 Project interview and her $2.4 million payout from the Albanese Labor Government. Continue reading