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Authors of this page: Dr Robert N Moles and Bibi Sangha

UK cases

Informants homepage
Go here for misconduct proceedings involving Cosgrove J.
Go here for articles on Kyle Unger case
Go here for Dr Charles Smith cases, including Tammy Marquardt, William Mullins-Johnson
A state of Injustice
Losing Their Grip - The Case of Henry Keogh

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Academic articles and reports

External link: Ministry of Justice - Annual Report 2008 Addressing Possible Miscarriages of Justice
External link: Ministry of Justice - Annual Report 2007 Applications for Ministerial Review
February 2007 - Prof Kent Roach - Editorial "Understanding and Preventing Wrongful Convictions" Criminal Law Quarterly Vol 52 No 2
February 2007 - Prof Kent Roach - The Case for Excluding Tainted Identification Evidence and Jailhouse and Coerced Confessions [Abstract] Criminal Law Quarterly Vol 52 No 2
2006 - Prof Kent Roach - The Protection of Innocence under Section 7 of the Charter - Supreme Court Law Review
2004 - Kerry Scullion - Wrongful Convictions and the Review Process under s.696.1 of the Criminal Code (the petition procedure)
Book Review by Win Wahrer - AIDWYC - Kerry Pither - Dark Days The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror
January 1992 - Wrongul Convictions in the Criminal Justice Process - Philip Rosen - Senior Analyst Govt of Canada from the archives

Law Reports

2009 - R. v. Peng, 2009 ONCA 921 drowning murder or manslaughter, summing up to jury
2000 - R. v J.-L.J. 2 S.C.R. 600 expert evidence - sexual assault
2000 - R. v D.D. 2 S.C.R. 275 expert evidence - child complaint sexual assault
1998 - Charemski v The Queen 123 CCC (3d) 225 - important case of circumstantial evidence
1994 - R v Mohan 2 S.C.R. 9 expert evidence
1955 - R v Boucher - Supreme Court of Canada - The classic case on the role of the prosecutor

The Inquiry into Paediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario

This is the Inquiry headed by The Honourable Stephen T Goudge Commissioner Link to the Commission's website
We are pleased to announce that Dr Bob Moles of Networked Knowledge, and Bibi Sangha of the Law School, Flinders University, have been engaged by the Commission to provide them with a paper relating to paediatric deaths in South Australia. The report will subsequently be published as part of the Commission's proceedings.
Report to be released 1 October 2008
Information about the South Australian cases which will provide part of the focus to this work may be found here

Dr Charles Smith, Paediatric Pathologist, Ontario, Canada Homepage
It was the issues in relation to Dr Smith's cases which provided the impetus for setting up the Commission of Inquiry

AIDWYC - Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted

(AIDWYC)Many of the cases on this page have resulted from the outstanding work of AIDWYC which is the leading model for challenging wrongful convictions

25 January 2010 - Midland Mirror - Justice system far from perfect, lawyer tells crowd
1 January 2010 - Globe and Mail - James Lockyer, Nation Builder of the Decade for Justice
24 May 2009 - Toronto Star - A former elite school boy who defends the downtrodden [James Lockyer]
12 April 2009 - Three films on Canadian miscarriages of justice - Witch Hunt, This Can Happen To You, Mr Big
24 January 2009 - Globe and Mail - Million-dollar gift from retired judge to fund the work of AIDWYC
14 July 2008 - Canadian Press - Groups behind Truscott victory [AIDWYC] mulls widening focus to non-murder convictions
25 April 2008 - The 2nd annual June Callwood Lecture by James Lockyer
13 March 2008 - Northern Life - James Lockyer: Guilty until proven innocent
1 March 2008 - Sudbury Star - Defence lawyer fighting for justice
10 January 2008 - Guelph Mercury - James Lockyer: Truth must drive the system
3 January 2008 - Guelph Mercury - James Lockyer
1 May 2007 - Illawarra Mercury (Australia) - International body (AIDWYC) looks at Catt case