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Frank & Fearless
About this book
"When I walked through the office door each day, I knew that almost every decision I made would make someone unhappyā¦" In Frank and Fearless Nicholas Cowdery QC takes us behind the scenes of the toughest cases that defined his 16 years as the Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales. The headline-grabbing criminal trials of Gordon Wood, Keli Lane, and Christopher Gilham (tried for the 1992 murder of his brother and parents) are examined with forensic precision, along with the DPP's contentious decisions not to prosecute artist Bill Henson and members of The Chaser. During his tenure, Cowdery was also well-known for his support for realistic drug and death with dignity laws, and for the need to decriminalise abortion. Frank and Fearless is a gripping and forthright account of the most difficult decisions Nicholas Cowdery had to make during his time as a gatekeeper of the criminal justice system.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Enough is Enough: the murder of Michael Marslew
- Chapter 2: Which brother? The Gilham family stabbing deaths
- Chapter 3: When people are pushed to breaking point: Fatima and Bobby
- Chapter 4: Voluntary assisted dying: Fred and Katerina; Shirley and Graeme and Caren
- Chapter 5: The law applies to everyone: the crown prosecutor
- Chapter 6: The law applies to everyone: the minister of the crown
- Chapter 7: Politics and the law: mandatory sentencing
- Chapter 8: The Chaser
- Chapter 9: Under pressure
- Chapter 10: Defining indecency: the Bill Henson case
- Chapter 11: Gordon Wood and the death of Caroline Byrne
- Chapter 12: One brother, two murder trials: the Gilham case returns
- Chapter 13: A victory over anger: Ken Marslewās transformation
- Chapter 14: Yours faithfully: facing forced retirement
- Chapter 15: Seeing what we donāt want to see: the Keli Lane trial
- Chapter 16: Sentencing a child murderer: Keli Laneās sentencing
- Chapter 17: Shirley Justinsās appeal
- Chapter 18: The demolition of the trial of Gordon Wood
- Chapter 19: Life after being the DPP
- Appendix: Reforms achieved and reforms still needed