The case of a woman wrongfully jailed for murdering her four children highlights the dire need for reform in how compensation is calculated

What dollar value can be put on the vigorous, productive years of a human life? In Kathleen Folbigg’s case it is most of her 30s, her 40s and half her 50s.

All stripped from her due to a miscarriage of justice at the hands of the state – much of it down to prosecutorial mishaps and blind ignorance about the development of genetic science.

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