Patient not told of surgery ban
A WOMAN who starved to death as a result of radical obesity surgery was operated on by a doctor despite his being banned two years earlier from carrying out such procedures by another Gold Coast hospital.
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Mission to save others from mum’s fate
LEESA MacLeod admits she is relentless. A junior high school dropout who lives with her partner in a shed-like home an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, she is also on a mission.
Police supplied ‘bogus intelligence’
A FORMER Sydney lawyer wants a high-level probe into his claims that Australian Federal Police officers gave bogus intelligence to Vanuatu authorities and falsely asserted he was an international narcotics trafficker.
Keelty can’t avoid responsibility
LET’S give Mick Keelty the benefit of the doubt. Let’s presume that his policy and media advisers are strongly influencing his handling of the Mohamed Haneef case, his disingenuous responses and his glass-jawed reproach of critics of his shabby policy and policing.
Lawyer’s own legal ordeal
A LITTLE after 10am, while walking from a gleaming Brisbane Magistrates Court building to his favourite coffee shop yesterday, Peter Russo, criminal defence lawyer and new best friend of Mohamed Haneef, smiled at well-wishers. One sought an autograph. Others approached to say, “Good on you, mate”.
Liberty for Haneef
MOHAMED Haneef has been freed from prison after the Howard Government revoked his detention order and commonwealth prosecutors abandoned their terror proceedings against him amid top-level admissions of serious mistakes.
Early test for new Bar president
The Haneef case led to a turbulent first week in the job for Hugh Fraser, QC
Hedley Thomas on Haneef
IS it a flagrant abuse of process and of the criminal justice system by the Howard Government as it reaches into its bag of political tricks to whip up fears of terrorism in a desperate bid to turn around its political stocks before the Federal Election?
Doctor passed background checks
ROUTINE background checks failed to detect alleged links between criminal organisations and Mohamed Haneef, the Indian-trained doctor arrested in Queensland in connection with the Britain terror plot.
Medic was nothing out of the ordinary
THE double bed in the sparsely furnished main room had been neatly made. In the kitchen the dishes from his last meal were lying in the sink, unwashed. There were few clues to a hasty exit.
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