Andrew L. Urban
Federal Court judge Wendy Abraham has dismissed the Ten Network’s application to force Bruce Lehrmann to put up $200,000 ahead of his appeal being heard; she also set aside the $2 million legal bill Lehrmann was ordered to pay Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson until after the appeal concludes. It won’t be payable if he wins the appeal. Continue reading
You can skip the tables but you can’t skip the conclusions in this detailed, gripping investigation by an interested party (prefers not to be named) of the ‘expert testimony’ by (now retired) Associate Professor Rod Cross presented by Mark Tedeschi KC for the prosecution at the 2008 trial of Gordon Wood for the murder of his fiancée Caroline Byrne. It is in the form of a letter to the editor and is published in full in the interests of debating reforms needed in the criminal justice system. Wood was found guilty but the verdict was quashed on appeal in 2012. (See more stories on this case by link from the menu on the right.) Continue reading
Andrew Urban, creator and presenter of Front Up, the award winning social documentary program, is speaking at the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, on October 16, 2024. Continue reading
Paperback and hardcover editions of Andrew L. Urban’s exposé, Presumption of Evil – Noel Greenaway, sexual abuser or collateral damage? are now available on Amazon, coinciding with the August 31, 2024 conference in Sydney, Restoring The Presumption of Innocence. Continue reading
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her appeal to overturn ICAC’s findings that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
“The Plan … started long before Lisa Wilkinson’s infamous Project interview in February 2021. Shortly after meeting Sharaz in May 2020 – some 14 months after the alleged rape – Higgins crafted a note about an ‘anatomy of a political sex scandal’,” as reported in The Australian (9/7/2024) Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
Sexual assault, what people think of as rape and sexual intercourse without consent are not really the same thing, yet they are stapled together in the eyes of the law. The entire subject is one of the hottest issues in the public square.# The Law Reform Commission is even looking at how convictions can be increased by lowering the bar for prosecution. Is that wise? Is that consistent with the presumption of innocence, the onus of proof on the Crown – and with justice? Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
Well now, the Law Reform Commission, which has never looked at reforms that might minimise wrongful convictions, is conducting a probe into the nation’s sexual assault laws to examine whether civil remedies, with lower standards of proof, can “bring justice for complainants”. And presiding is Australian Law Reform Commission president Mordecai Bromberg, who in Employment/Industrial Relations cases (2018-2020) found in favour of the union 10 out of 11 times, according to a 2021 Menzies Research Centre (MRC) report on Judicial Impartiality. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban.
The risks to the rule of law in Australia are subtle and internal and “I do not believe that there are any risks to our way of life in terms of the rule of law from the inclusion of immigrants,” said Walter Sofronoff KC in his Robin Speed Memorial address to the Rule of Law Education Centre (June 13, 2024). “It will come from wrongheaded narcissists and zealots…” Continue reading
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In just under 80 minutes, the audio version of the New Yorker’s investigative piece about the Lucy Letby case provides a thorough expose of the hysterical miscarriage of justice that an entire legal system has managed. You can read it in full, too. Continue reading