Australia’s patchwork of criminal appeal laws creates an uneven playing field. Here’s what they are and how the system can be made more equitable.
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Expert opinion is necessary as part of the justice system – but nobody is asking if the experts are fit for the task and if their evidence is reliable.
The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
Leonard Mack spent years in a US jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Here’s how identification procedures can, and have, led to wrongful convictions, and what can be done to prevent it.
Since Folbigg was convicted in 2003, there have been nearly 3,000 additional single genes identified, whose different mutations can cause over 6,250 different diseases.
One in three wrongfully convicted women were convicted of crimes that involved harming children. Once pardoned or exonerated, they experienced significant psychological and practical challenges.
Such bodies have proven to bring a cost-effective improvement to the accuracy of criminal justice systems overseas.
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney Law School; Director Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney