Frank & Fearless
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Frank & Fearless

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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 unhappy…" 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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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781742244617
Edition
0
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Administrative Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Enough is Enough: the murder of Michael Marslew
  7. Chapter 2: Which brother? The Gilham family stabbing deaths
  8. Chapter 3: When people are pushed to breaking point: Fatima and Bobby
  9. Chapter 4: Voluntary assisted dying: Fred and Katerina; Shirley and Graeme and Caren
  10. Chapter 5: The law applies to everyone: the crown prosecutor
  11. Chapter 6: The law applies to everyone: the minister of the crown
  12. Chapter 7: Politics and the law: mandatory sentencing
  13. Chapter 8: The Chaser
  14. Chapter 9: Under pressure
  15. Chapter 10: Defining indecency: the Bill Henson case
  16. Chapter 11: Gordon Wood and the death of Caroline Byrne
  17. Chapter 12: One brother, two murder trials: the Gilham case returns
  18. Chapter 13: A victory over anger: Ken Marslew’s transformation
  19. Chapter 14: Yours faithfully: facing forced retirement
  20. Chapter 15: Seeing what we don’t want to see: the Keli Lane trial
  21. Chapter 16: Sentencing a child murderer: Keli Lane’s sentencing
  22. Chapter 17: Shirley Justins’s appeal
  23. Chapter 18: The demolition of the trial of Gordon Wood
  24. Chapter 19: Life after being the DPP
  25. Appendix: Reforms achieved and reforms still needed