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

Go to: Networked Knowledge - the Henry Keogh homepage
Go to: A state of Injustice - table of contents
Go to: Losing Their Grip - The Case of Henry Keogh - table of contents

Cases

The case of Mark Standen
The case of Janine Balding
The case of Kathleen Folbigg
The Judge Dodd [the sleeping judge] cases This page includes the cases of Paul Duncan, Adam Perre, James Kearns
The case of Roseanne Catt [Beckett]
The case of Patrick Power - former Crown Prosecutor
The Bernie Mathews homepage
The Zinc Corporation Ltd v Pearce 21 December 1990

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

Public Interest Advocacy Centre NSW External link to their site
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

Bruce Burrell

Law Reports

31 July 2008 - Burrell v The Queen [2008] - High Court - decision discussing Grierson power of Court of Appeal to re-open appeal
11 June 2008 - Burrell v The Queen [2008] - High Court - transcript application for leave to appeal to High Court - allowed in part
7 March 2008 - Burrell v The Queen [2008] - High Court - transcript application for leave to appeal to High Court - allowed in part
23 March 2007 - Burrell v The Queen [2007] – New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal - application to re-open appeal
4 March 2005 - Burrell v The Queen [2008] - High Court - transcript application for leave to appeal to High Court (refused)

Media Articles

7 March  2008 - Sun-Herald - Killer Burrell granted leave to appeal
8 February 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Bruce Burrell gets 28 years
18 September 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Inside the mind of Bruce Burrell
17 September 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Burrell guilty of second murder
12 September 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Judge tells Burrell jury to reach decision
11 September 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Tea lady stops Burrell trial
5 September 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Jury out in Burrell murder trial
15 August 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Victim never visited, says Burrell's ex-wife
21 August 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Burrell 'annoyed' that widow wanted loan back
28 August 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Paul Mercurio takes the stand in Burrell case

Jeffrey Gilham

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"

Phuong Ngo

9 November 2008 - Sunday Telegraph - Della Bosca offers to re-testify
8 November 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - I was offered seat the night MP was shot: Reba Meagher
6 November 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Murder 'confession' scared me: Ngo supporter
1 November 2008 - The Australian - Ngo witness flees after reliving her 'terror'
29 October 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Reba Meagher might testify in Ngo hearing
29 October 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Peter Breen 'lacks evidence of Phong Ngo innocence'
9 October 2008 - Daily Telegraph - I blame lawyers, says convicted assassin Phuong Ngo
14 August 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Legal aid granted for MP's assassin Phuong Ngo
13 August 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - MP's assassination: Ngo faces judge
23 July 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - No-go areas in Ngo inquiry
7 June 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - Fury at new chance for Phuong Ngo
7 June 2008 - Daily Telegraph - MP Newman murder revisited
6 June 2008 - ABC The World Today - Inquiry reviews Phuong Ngo case
6 June 2008 - Sydney Morning Herald - MP's assassination: inquiry into conviction
29 June 2003 - Sun-Herald - Newman's assassin transferred to 'Super Max' unit
30 June 2003 Sydney Morning Herald - Jail breaks up Ngo gang after decoding message
7 April 2008 - ABC 4 Corners - The Newman Case

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:

The John Griffiths; Brendan Pigott; Michael Simeon case

External link: The Trouble with Justice site
Raising important questions about the role of expert witnesses

Media Articles

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
9 September 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Exact spot of model's body 'forgotten'
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
16 April 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Cowdery's fury over child victim's three-day rape case ordeal
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
16 August 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Mangos to be witness in Einfeld case
15 August 2007 Nine MSN reported “Witnesses to blow Einfeld alibi claim
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
18 July 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - You be the judge: law students are told to practise on Einfeld
15 June 2007 - Daily Telegraph - Paedophiles off police radar
13 June 2007 - ABC News - Professor continues evidence in Gordon Wood hearing
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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