The Role of False Memories in Wrongful Convictions
Two Toronto defence lawyers set out how false memories reach the criminal courts, and what R. v Tan and R v SKM show about testing recovered-memory evidence.
16 January 2025
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Vanessa Scammell denounces #MeToo campaign that ruined Australian actor Craig McLachlan's career
Vanessa Scammell denounces the #MeToo campaign that ruined Craig McLachlan's career and the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
27 December 2024
False Accusations and Wrongful Convictions: How Lives Can So Easily Be Ruined
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
Airline fake rape crisis
Bettina Arndt takes apart claims of an airline rape crisis and the activist campaign driving the story.
7 October 2024
Jarryd Hayne's Successful Sexual Assault Appeal: The Reasoning Behind the Judgment
The reasoning behind Jarryd Hayne's successful sexual assault appeal after three trials and two overturned verdicts.
17 June 2024
Derek Bromley granted parole after 40 years
Derek Bromley is granted parole 40 years after his 1984 murder conviction, still maintaining his innocence.
28 March 2024
Faked admission of a rape that didn’t happen
A Sydney judge ruled a rape complainant used a rehearsed script to manipulate the accused into an apology he did not believe. The charges were then dropped.
11 February 2024
What if the police and prosecution were told to ‘believe all victims of false allegations’?
A Bristol criminologist inverts the instruction: if police and prosecutors had to believe every claimed victim of a false allegation, would they accept it?
22 January 2024
Sexual abuse – or justice abused? A priest’s tale
Fr Gordon MacRae's own account of the New Hampshire investigation, the plea deals he refused and the 1994 trial that left him serving 33½ to 67 years.
8 January 2024
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
The much-quoted 5 per cent figure comes from a meta-analysis that excluded whole categories of cases. Two Australian researchers put the real rate above 10 per cent.
21 October 2023