An alliance of lawyers is calling on the New South Wales government to repeal 'no body, no parole" laws, claiming it only gives victims' families false hope.
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00:00The lawyers are arguing that these laws are ineffective and that they put the wrongfully
00:05convicted at risk by making it even harder for them to get out of jail.
00:10Now the ABC has spoken to a lawyer on criminality and justice who said that, who's conducted
00:17research in Queensland and this research found that none of the cases that the parole board
00:22reported had actually resulted in the discovery of any bodies.
00:26Now the NSW government has rebutted this point.
00:28They say that the law requires offenders to cooperate with authorities to try and locate
00:34bodies and that even if no body is found, the offenders could still be eligible for
00:39parole if it's deemed that they cooperated in a manner that was satisfactory.
00:44Now despite this, the lawyers say there are still concerns around the impact that this
00:48law has on families of victims, especially by giving them either false hope as well.
00:54So more than 100 people have signed this letter to the NSW government to overturn these
01:01laws and they include two high profile, wrongly convicted people.
01:05That's Kathleen Folbig and Lindy Chamberlain.
01:08All of this debate comes just days after Chris Dawson lost his appeal to overturn his murder
01:14conviction after he was found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Sims more than 40 years ago.
01:20Lynette's body was never found and her family says that laws like this one have supported
01:25them with their grieving process and have also proved to be impactful.
01:30Now there's been many conversations had around this law as of late but it doesn't look like
01:35the NSW government will be overturning it any time soon.