Stephen Cordner
Stephen Cordner AM is emeritus professor of forensic medicine at Monash University and was the founding director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. He is co-author with Kerry Breen of Wrongful Convictions in Australia: Addressing issues in the criminal justice system (2023).
Stephen's recent articles
10 July 2025
Who wants to serve on a jury? Is the jury system still the best we can do?
You may have been following the current criminal trial in Victoria where a woman is accused of murdering three people by serving them a meal laced with death cap mushrooms.
19 June 2024
Why is Australia’s criminal justice system so resistant to change?
How many more wrongful convictions does Australia have to have before state and federal attorneys-general and senior members of the legal profession agree that they must address this serious problem?