External Link: Crimes Appeal and Review Act This includes aspects of appeals, Petition, application to Supreme Court for Review and DNA Review Panel
Law Reports
R v Pedrana Court of Criminal Appeal 2001 - miscarriage of justice, verdict of acquittal
On 22 August, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock announced that the South Wales Deputy Public Defender Christopher Craigie SC will become
the next Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. Apparently, Mr Craigie will take up his appointment on October 13. Damian Bugg QC,
will retire after eight years in the job.
Getting Legal Help in NSW
External link: NSW Attorney -General's Dept - media releases
External link: Public Interest Advocacy Centre NSW
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre does take on matters pro bono. It can also refer matters out
through PILCH - the Public Interest Law Clearing House - which is a referral
scheme to firms who undertake pro bono work. So it is always worth making an approach to PIAC to see if they can assist.
Academic and Technical Reports
July 2007 - NSW Bar Association - Charter of Human Rights for NSW?
July 2006 - NSW Bar Association - NSW Innocence Panel - Parliamentary Submission
NSW Bar Association - Submissions on the Evidence Act
The Dr Cala Homepage
For details of the Weightman family tragedy
Dr Sliwinski
7 June 2008 - The Age - Man who shot wife works as psychiatrist
7 June 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Patients don't know he killed his wife
16 April 2002 - Apology from New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd and Michael Sexton: to George Sliwinski
31 May 1994 - Medical Tribunal NSW hearing
The Vanessa Anderson Inquest
25 January 2008 - KansasCity.com - Global Excerpts: Fatal error; wrong debate
27 January 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Crusader fighting to fix sick system
26 January 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Iemma does a runner
25 January 2008 - The Age - Libs want NSW health royal commission
22 January 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Doctor queried for letters on girl's death
21 January 2008 - ABC News - Anaesthetist gives evidence into teen's RNS death
22 January 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Call for inquiry into golf ball girl's death
3 August 2007 - ABC Stateline - The Anderson Inquest
28 July 2007 - ABC Stateline - “The Truth?” The Death of Vanessa Anderson
28 July 2007 - ABC News - Fresh questions over teen death doctor
27 July 2007 - ABC News - Teen death inquest to hear new claims about anaesthetist
Caroline Byrne
30 September 2009 - The Australian - Murder by degrees
The Killing of Caroline Byrne – A journey of justice - February 2009 - Allen & Unwin - reviewed by Michael Madigan
9 September 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Exact spot of model's body 'forgotten'
13 June 2007 - ABC News - Professor continues evidence in Gordon Wood hearing
Jeffrey Gilham
14 March 2009 - Sydney Morning Herald - One angry man wants answers [Tony Gilham]
11 March 2009 - 2GB - Uncle describes Jeffrey Gilham as a 'typical psychopath'
28 November 2008 - ABC - Gilham found guilty of parents' murders
10 April 2008 - Adelaide Now - Jury discharged in double murder case
31 March 2008 - ABC News - Family murders: Son's defence 'defies logic'
18 March 2008 - ABC News - Family murder similarities coincidental, says son
11 October 2006 - The Australian - "Three stabbed 'by same hand'"
10 October 2006 - The Australian - "Police destroy murder evidence"
Douglas Harry Rendell
17 March 1994 - Parliament of New South Wales Legislative Council -
Post-Conviction Inquiry (Douglas Harry Rendell) Bill Second Reading
Deaths in bath
13 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Woman killed in bath fall had been drinking heavily [Patricia Sagban]
12 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Woman found dead in bath showed signs of strangling [Patricia Sagban]
12 August 2008 - The Telegraph - Patricia Sagban bathtub death: Drunken accident
11 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Death in bath: foul play suspected [Patricia Sagban]
18 June 1996 - The Advertiser - Woman drowns taking bath [Jody Ryan]
See also:
Report: Sudden Adult Death: Deaths in bath
2 April 2008 - The Times - Children's TV presenter Natasha Collins died in bath after cocaine binge
The John Griffiths; Brendan Pigott; Michael Simeon case
External link: The Trouble with Justice site
Raising important questions about the role of expert witnesses
Bikie Laws
22 May 2009 - Sydney Morning Herald - Bikie laws sideline the rule of law
16 May 2009 - Sydney Morning Herald - Bikie laws a threat to rights, says Cowdery
General Media Articles
21 December 2009 - Daily Telegraph - Wall of secrecy exposed in policing by state and federal crime commissions
26 March 2009 - Daily Telegraph - NSW Supreme Court judge illegally issued search warrants
8 October 2008 - ABC - Calls for medical misconduct register
6 October 2008 - ABC - Lismore doctor [Roman Hasil] under NSW Health scrutiny
7 October 2008 - Canberra Times - Disgraced doctor [Roman Hasil] was free to work
29 September 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Criminal pasts but police officers still keep their jobs
20 September 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Three drug cases placed in jeopardy
28 August 2008 - The Australian - Call to reform police powers
10 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Terrorist trial: top lawyer off the case
6 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Wrong man: police bungle rape arrest
31 July 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Hunt goes on for escort Revelle Balmain's final client
5 August 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Reward likely after coroner finds Rachelle Childs murdered
3 July 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Westmead morgue to shut: lack of staff to blame
17 June 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Teacher's pest: top health official sacked
28 April 2008 - The Australian - Uni academic denied natural justice: review
13 April 2008 - Sunday Telegraph - No more medical secrets
4 April 2008 - Michael Nott - new disclosures in MSBP case of R v JKF
28 March 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Cries of wolf from nation's most independent DPP
27 March 2008 - National Nine News - Cowdery slams 'ruthless' NSW government
26 March 2008 - ABC News - Office overhaul: DPP told to clean up act
26 March 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - A keeper for unruly DPP
24 March 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Cops fail integrity testing, but results remain secret
14 March 2008 - Adelaide Now - Milton Orkopoulos
2 March 2008 - Sun Herald - Top police official's son took bribes
21 February 2008 - The Australian - Judges need power to name young
8 February 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Lawyers' lair protected by dragon of legal thread
3 February 2008 - Sunday Telegraph - Morgue can't cope with rising death toll
29 January 2008 - Yahoo7News - Doctor assumed man died naturally: court told
10 January 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Plea bargaining debate continues in NSW
10 January 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Plea bargain rort review
4 January 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Another bundle of intrusions
28 December 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Your Honours save us from the deep, dark void
27 December 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Murder retrial ordered after jury question goes unnoticed by judge
26 December 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Judge lashed for accusing ASIO of kidnap
19 December 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Justice isn't blind but she seems star-struck
19 December 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - NSW police will wait to take action against their own
19 December 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Wrongly accused detectives get $10 million
18 December 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Peter Meakin: Are the scales of justice unbalanced?
14 December 2007 - Nine News - Corrupt ex-cop likely to stay protected
9 November 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Law 'turns boys into rapists'
7 November 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Cold case: wife hacked up husband [Wayne Chant]
6 November 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Body parts case: widow charged
4 November 2007 - Herald Sun - Jail again for 520 paroled criminals on crime sprees
2 November 2007 - The Australian - Mystery over files after win in court
23 October 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Inside the mind of the mob
15 October, 2007 - Australian Lawyers Alliance - New court rules in NSW would prevent fair trials
1 October 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Judges wife: Seething over breath-test fracas
1 October 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Accused's briefs even briefer under new law
30 September 2007 - NineMSN - New laws set mandatory sentences in NSW
22 September 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Shane Miles: Soft sentence for killers, abuse for victims
12 September 2007 - The Australian - Killer Ivan Milat threatens hunger strike
30 August 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Why Shaw wasn't charged over blood sample
3 September 2007 - The Australian - Murder accused has alibi, court told
30 August 2007 - NineMSN - Possible lead in child murder cases
23 August 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Killer [Sef Gonzales] snared by own lies
17 August 2007 - ABC Stateline - Dead and Buried - the NSW Coroner's Court
10 August 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Judge may have been 'misled' by police
28 July 2007 - The Australian - More overseas doctor concerns
18 July 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Courts smile on troubled stars
15 June 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Paedophiles off police radar
4 June 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Campaign to uncover the wrongly convicted
1 June 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Evil Van Krevel set free
1 June 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Freed: daughter who urged father's killing (Belinda Van Krevel)
5 August 1994 – Advertiser – Outrage over brain removal
Sydney: Public outrage has forced changes to bizarre practice in which brains are secretly removed from bodies in Sydney's city morgue and disposed of
interstate in an industrial incinerator. News of the disposal has caused grief and disgust amongst thousands of families, who were never toldl that their relatives
brains had been taken
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