Bob was born at a very early age and brought up in Norwich, England. At the age of 19 the Norwich Union insurance company transferred him to their office in Londonderry Northern Ireland - just 2 months after the British Government sent the troops in.
Bob completed his law degree at Queen's University Belfast in 1978. He then went to Edinburgh University to undertake his PhD which was subsequently published as Definition and Rule in Legal Theory (1987).
After teaching at Belfast and at the Australian National University, he went to Adelaide, South Australia, where he discovered that there were serious defects in the administration of criminal justice there.
For the last 10 years, he has worked on the investigation of serious miscarriages of justice. He published A State of Injustice (2004), Losing Their Grip (2006) and Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice (2010).
He is now pressing for legislative changes to bring about necessary reforms to tackle some of the outstanding serious miscarriage of justice cases in Australia. He has developed Networked Knowledge which provides interntet based resources relating to the cases he has worked on - http://netk.net.au