Category Archives: Democracy and Justice

By Andrew L. Urban August 20, 2014, marks 5 years to the day since the arrest of Hobart grandmother Sue Neill Fraser, for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell. She has been in custody ever since, without pre-trial bail … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban Sue Neill-Fraser will celebrate – if that’s the word – her 60th birthday on March 3, 2014 inside Hobart’s Risdon prison, shut away from her daughters and grandchildren, serving a 23 year sentence for the murder … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban Alan Turing (1912 – 1954), some readers will remember, is the man from Manchester who broke the German’s Enigma code and doing so, probably helped shorten WWII by two years or more, saving hundreds of thousands … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban Saturday, January 25, 2014: Independent MP Andrew Wilkie (Denison, Tas) became the first Tasmanian MP to speak out publicly about the controversial murder conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser, jailed in 2010 for 23 years. He spoke last … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban I may be unlearned in law, a lay man, but I don’t think I’m an intellectually lame man. I have been looking at the sentencing remarks in the controversial Sue Neill-Fraser case (about which I have … Continue reading →

This section was introduced on January 9, 2014 to collate all relevant posts in the wake of the growing number of articles specifically about the Sue Neill-Fraser case, since July 2013. As our interest intensified in that apparent miscarriage of … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban A murder conviction which eminent lawyers and legal experts say is quite possibly a gross miscarriage of justice has exposed serious deficiencies in Australia’s criminal justice system. Not only are the restrictive and limited appeal provisions … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban As Sue Neill-Fraser contemplates her fifth prison Christmas ‘feast’ at Hobart’s Risdon jail, we should take a moment from the celebrations to reflect on how Tasmania’s criminal system appears to have failed in her case, according … Continue reading →

By Dr Bob Moles* OVERVIEW The criminal appeal system in Tasmania is in breach of international human rights obligations – and has been so for over 30 years. Most people would think that if that were so, someone would have … Continue reading →

Dear Brian Wightman, Attorney General of Tasmania cc The Hon Lara Giddings MP, Premiere of Tasmania Thank you for your letter dated September 16 (received by email October 1), in response to my concerns about the murder conviction of Sue … Continue reading →