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Welcome to Networked Knowledge
Author of this page: Dr Robert N Moles - "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it" - Plato
The aims of Networked Knowledge are to publish legal materials and to investigate and provide information on alleged serious miscarriages of justice
We take seriously the motto espoused by Sam Ericsson of Advocates International - "Justice is Truth in Action"
Since we started in August 2005 NetK has delivered 6.2 million documents to around 2.8 million readers in some 200 countries.
Our annual rate of document deliveries is now over 700,000.
Where do I start?
If you are looking for materials on general legal topics - you will find them listed in "Library" [see left of screen]
If you are looking for particular cases of injustice, then you will find them listed
by name or jurisdiction in "Library"
If still uncertain use "search" [left of screen]
CLICK on any of the above covers for further information about the books.
The full text of Definition and Rule in Legal Theory - A State of Injustice - Losing Their Grip - is available here online
27 October 2015 - Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities which includes the university Law Schools(DASSH) Infographic
Recognising the Flinders University Miscarriages of Justice Project as one of 4 leading projects in the Australasian region
"examples of research with impact" - well done Associate Professor Bibi Sangha at Flinders University Law School
HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH - Henry Keogh Conviction overturned after 20 years imprisonment
In October 2001 on the ABC 4 Corners program
we claimed that the case of Henry Keogh was a serious miscarriage of justice
In December 2014 the Court of Criminal Appeal in South Australia overturned his conviction
In November 2015 the DPP formally terminated the further prosecution of this case.
The Henry Keogh homepage has links to the law reports on his case
The print-media reports on this historic event are here
The television and radio programs are here
Networked Knowledge - Television and Radio programs online
Go here for list of programs with transcripts and summaries
Program no 1 - ABC 4 Corners 2001 provides the best overview
Program no 88 - Channel 7 Today Tonight - is the most shocking - the chief pathologist in South Australia conducts a public autopsy on an aboriginal man
Program no 89 - ABC The Weekly comedy show on miscarriages of justice is the most humorous look at the topic of wrongful convictions
August 2015 - book by LexisNexis on Miscarriages of Justice by Bibi Sangha and Robert Moles
Miscarriages of Justice: Criminal Appeals and the Rule of Law in Australia
"A State of Injustice" available as ebook
Download from Amazon.com for reading on Kindle and other ebook readers
"Losing Their Grip - the case of Henry Keogh" available as ebook
Download from Amazon.com for reading on Kindle and other ebook readers
Searching Networked Knowledge
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Click on the red button "search NetK" to the left of the screen.
Please bear in mind that it takes the search engine a few days to index new materials.
So always good to check "what's new" for the most recent materials
Conference and Lecture presentations
Dr Bob Moles - The UK Paper on Miscarriages of Justice - University of East Anglia 10 May 2017
Dr Bob Moles - The Adelaide / Melbourne Paper on Miscarriages of Justice in South Australia
Talks based upon this paper were given to the West Melbourne Lawyers Group 7 March 2017 / Victoria University 21 March 2017 / the Port Adelaide Criminal Lawyers Group 24 March 2017
18 January 2017 - Dr Bob Moles - INTI International University, Kuala Lumpur - Powerpoint slides
20 September 2016 - Briefing paper – Psychology post-graduate seminar, Adelaide University, Miscarriages of Justice: Australia, Britain and Canada
28 April 2016 - What Can be Done About Wrongful Convictions? University of Sydney and Institute of Criminology with Prof Jon Gould and Prof Richard Leo from the USA
16 February 2016 - Dr Bob Moles - INTI International University, Kuala Lumpur
3 December 2015 - Dr Bob Moles - LSAANZ Conference 3 December 2015 -"Australian Miscarriages of Justice"
25 November 2015 - Dr Bob Moles - ANZSOC Conference 25-26 November 2015 -"Australian Miscarriages of Justice"
25 November 2015 - Professor Kent Roach on Miscarriages of Justice - see Professor Roach's Lectures and Powerpoint slides from the Flinders Symposium November 2014
19 November 2015 - Dr Bob Moles - Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Annual Conference of Court and Legal Industry Media Officers -"Australian Miscarriages of Justice"
10 April 2015 - Dr Bob Moles - 23rd Biennial Conference of District & County Court Judges of Australia & New Zealand - "A New Right of Appeal – The South Australian Experience"
4 April 2013 - Advocates International Conference, Hong Kong - Bibi Sangha, Bob Moles "A Legislative Breakthrough in the Pursuit of Justice in Australia"
7-9 Sept 2011 - Australian Institute of Justice Administration (AIJA): Bibi Sangha, Bob Moles, "Australian Criminal Appeals and International Human Rights Obligations"
Wrongful Conviction Day -2 October each year
South Australia's new statutory right of appeal in criminal cases
The Act to establish a new right of appeal for those who claim to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice and media and parliamentary reports are here
Book on Forensic Investigations
Bibi Sangha (Flinders University of South Australia) Professor Kent Roach (University of Toronto) and Bob Moles (Networked Knowledge) are the authors of the book Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice - The Rhetoric meets the Reality published by Irwin Law of Toronto Sept 2010. The book covers the law and cases of Australia, Britain and Canada, and is intended to be used by practitioners and students alike.
Forensic Investigations Book Homepage: Reviews and links to sources referred to in this book
National and international online database entries
Publications about our work
2 March 2017 - Tasmanian Times - Derek Bromley: A Summary of the Evidence
28 October 2016 - Tasmanian Times - Aboriginal Incarceration Rates in Australia: The case of Derek Bromley
June 2016 - LexisNexis - Advancing Togther - Vol 52 Issue 1 - Sangha/Moles - A historic breakthrough to develop the rule
of law in Australian criminal appeals
18 May 2016 - ABC Radio National and local radio: Wrongful convictions: calls for an independent investigative body to be established - audio and transcript
18 May 2016 - ABC News - Legal experts call for national body to investigate wrongful convictions
3 May 2015 - Flinders University - Lifting the Lid on Wrongful Convictions
15 April 2016 - Hon Michael Kirby: Academic and Institutional Law Reform in Australia, Australian National University Conference on Law Reform (text at footnotes 68-70)
27 October 2015 - DASSH Infographic - recognising the Flinders Miscarriages of Justice Project
DASSH is the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities which includes Law. It has recognised the Flinders MOJ project as one of 4 leading projects in the Australasian region as "examples of research with impact" - well done Bibi Sangha at Flinders Uni
23 October 2015 - InDaily - SA courts may need help to cope with appeals
21 October 2015 - Civil Liberties Australia - Flood of reviews may be end result
25 September 2015 - Pursue Democracy - Australia's greatest forensic disaster
17 July 2015 - The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG - Leo Cussen Justice Speech Australian Law Teachers Association Conference LaTrobe University Melbourne "Unmet Legal Needs in Australia: Ten Commandments for Law Schools"
An edited version of the above lecture by the Hon Michael Kirbt is available at Civil Liberties Australia
24 June 2015 - The Hon Malcolm McCusker AC CVO QC - "Miscarriages of Justice" Address to the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society (Western Australia) Inc
21 July 2015 - Radio 891 ABC Adelaide - Flawed murder conviction ruling prompts forensic evidence doubts in other SA murder cases
21 July 2015 - The Advertiser - Murderers lining up to appeal forensic evidence [South Australia]
July 2015 - Australian Womens Weekly - Jailed for a brutal murder - but did she really do it?[Susan Neill-Fraser, Tasmania]
25 March 2015 - The Australian - Justice cast to the four winds [Susan Neill-Fraser, Tasmania]
10 December 2014 - Pursue Democracy - David Szach: a dying man’s legal rights denied
17 October 2014 - InDaily - Flinders lawyers – trailblazing (and very employable)
Refers to the "trailblazing work of Bibi Sangha, barrister and senior lecturer in law, in the development of criminal appeals.
10 September 2014 - Civil Liberties Australia - Tassie to Adopt Right to Appeal Law
9 September 2014 - ABC - Legal revamp may give Tasmania's criminals more right to appeal convictions
24 August 2014 - Channel 9 60 Minutes - Justice Overboard the case of Susan Neill-Fraser (Tasmania) - program 22 mins
includes links to additional interviews with Charles Wooley and Bob Moles
26 August 2014 - Mercury - Top cop defends probe into murder of Bob Chappell
25 August 2014 - Mercury - New ‘break-in gone wrong’ theory emerges in Bob Chappell murder
20 August 2014 - ABC News - Bob Chappell Murder: Lawyer flags 'errors' in Susan Neill-Fraser trial
7 June 2014 - Canberra Times - SA's new appeal laws may spread around the country
5 June 2014 - Canberra Times / Sydney Morning Herald / The Age - David Eastman inquiry result spurs call for royal commission into forensic procedures
19-20 April 2014 - West Australian - "Justice On The Line"
15 February 2014 Christine Jackman in Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald and The Age) - "The Devil in The Detail" [the Henry Keogh story]
30 December 2013 - Andrew Urban in The Australian - Sue Neill-Fraser: "When Justice Loses Appeal"
21 December 2013 - Mark Whittaker in Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald and The Age) - "I didn't do it - I wasn't there" [the Derek Bromley story]
December 2013 - Verbatim [Flinders Law School] - A New Right of Criminal Appeal
2 May 2013 - Hon Michael Kirby in the Financial Review - "Welcome New Hope for the Wrongly Convicted"
21 March 2013 - Australian Lawyers Alliance - Media Release - ALA Applauds Criminal Appeals Review Process
20 March 2013 - Jeremy Roberts in InDaily - Keogh case inspires legal reform
19 March 2013 - Jeremy Roberts in InDaily - Historic new right to appeal likely to pass this week
December 2012 - Encounter (Flinders Uni Alumnii Journal)- Tireless Advocacy An Appeal to Justice [the work of Bibi Sangha, Bob Moles]
7.45 A similar argument was provided by Dr Robert Moles (of Networked Knowledge), an author who has written several
books on miscarriages of justice. He suggested that there should be a pre-trial investigation of this sort before the jury is
sworn. This, he said, would focus on the adequacy of the scientific principles involved and whether they are capable of
producing reliable conclusions.
7.46 We agree that a pre-trial meeting of experts chaired by the judge (in the presence of the parties?
representatives) could be beneficial for the experts or the court or both, at least in cases where
expert opinion evidence is central to the prosecution case and a meeting under rule
33.6 has already revealed a significant dispute between the parties? experts.
Publications by Bibi Sangha and Bob Moles
December 2015 - Bibi Sangha - Flinders Law Journal Volume 17(2) - The Statutory Right to Second or Subsequent Criminal Appeals in South Australia and Tasmania
December 2015 - Bob Moles - Flinders Law Journal Volume 17(2) - Institutional Reform in the Context of Criminal Appeals in South Australia -
July 2014 - Bibi Sangha / Bob Moles / Kim Economides- Flinders Law Journal Volume 16(1) - The New Statutory Right of Appeal in South Australia
May 2014 - Bibi Sangha / Bob Moles - UNSW Law Journal Volume 37(1) - Sir Neil MacCormick's Theory and Miscarriages of Justice
Go here for full list of articles in the above journal
17 December 2013 - Robert Moles in the Tasmanian Times - The Need for a National Criminal Cases Review Commission
4 December 2013 - Robert Moles in the Tasmanian Times - Australia Needs a National Response to Miscarriages of Justice
June 2013 - LexisNexis - Advancing Togther - Vol 2 Issue 1 - Sangha/Moles - Miscarriages of Justice and the Rule of Law: the new South Australian Appeal Laws
2012 - Flinders University Law Journal - Sangha/Moles - Criminal Justice Special Issue: Mercy or Right? Post-appeal Petitions in Australia
October 2012 - Criminal Law Journal - Volume 36 - Sangha/Moles - Post-appeal review rights: Australia, Britain and Canada
November 2011 - LexisNexis - Direct Link - Volume 8 No 12 - Sangha/Moles - Why we need a Criminal Cases Review Commission
September 2011 - LexisNexis - Direct Link - Volume 8 No 11 - Sangha/Moles - "Post-conviction reviews in Australia - "A Degree of Intellectual Isolation"
August 2011 - LexisNexis - Direct Link - Volume 8 No 10 - Sangha/Moles - "The Right to a Fair Trial in the Context of International Human Rights Obligations"
July 2011 - LexisNexis - Direct Link - Volume 8 No 9 - Sangha/Moles - "Post-conviction reviews - Strategies for change"
May 2011 - LexisNexis - Direct Link - Volume 8 No 8 - Bob Moles - "The Law on Non-Disclosure in Australia: All Rights - No Remedies?"
13 May 2011 - Bibi Sangha, Bob Moles - The Australian - "Australia lags in junk forensics remedies"
1 April 2011 - Bibi Sangha, Bob Moles - The Australian - "Non-disclosure of the facts at trial could threaten the integrity of our entire system of law and justice."
The Harold Levy Blogspot in Toronto - The Charles Smith Blog
Harold Levy's blogspot is the place to go for discussion of the Goudge Report and an extensive
range of material on flawed forensic science
Mr Levy is a well-respected senior journalist in Toronto. He had a significant role to play in bringing the Smith problems to the attention of the public
Bibi Sangha and Robert Moles recipients of the 2013 Charles Smith Blog Award
Robert Moles and Bibi Sangha (Australia) for their intensive efforts including writing influential books and articles to persuade South Australia to
establish a new statutory right of appeal have rightfully been recognized by Flinders University. Much of their tireless campaign has been inspired by
the need to rectify disturbing miscarriages of justice - sometimes decades old - which have been caused by flawed forensic evidence.
Baby Deaths Report to Canadian Commission of Inquiry
2008 - South Australian Expert Report [Dr Moles, Ms Bibi Sangha] to the Ontario Commission into Paediatric Pathology Inquiry by Justice Goudge
The full report has been published by the Commission - Volume 2 Independent Research Studies chapter 7
The Flinders University Symposium On Miscarriages of Justice took place on 7/8 November 2014
The Centre for Crime and Justice Policy - link to Symposium lectures and powerpoints
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