By Roberto Jorquera SYDNEY — Sixty people attended a public forum, "Police fabrication and review of wrongful conviction", on November 23. The meeting was chaired by Green MLC Ian Cohen and organised by Justice Action, a community-based criminal justice organisation comprising academics, lawyers, prisoners and ex-prisoners, victims of crime and other activists. Speakers included John Akister, ex-Minister for Corrective Services, associate professor David Brown, Terry Gorman and Tim Anderson. Gorman said, "the failure to establish an effective and independent miscarriage of justice unit in NSW will cause a log jam of cases, [which will] only result in further royal commissions into the criminal justice system five or 10 years down the track". Anderson agreed on the importance of "establishing an independent review body". For further information telephone Justice Action on (02) 281 5100.
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