In Nicholson v Parole Board Queensland [2024] QSC 232, the applicant, Clive Anthony Nicholson, sought a statutory order review against the Parole Board's decision to refuse his parole application. Nicholson was convicted of his wife's murder in 2006, with her body never found. Despite multiple accounts given over the years, the Parole Board found Nicholson had not satisfactorily cooperated in locating the victim's body. In 2019, Nicholson changed his account, claiming to have buried the body in Cedar Grove, contradicting previous assertions of disposing it in the Southport ocean. The Board determined this new account lacked credibility due to inconsistencies and previous false testimonies. Nicholson's application was dismissed on grounds that the Board's decision was neither legally unreasonable nor indicative of jurisdictional error in assessing his cooperation credibility under the Corrective Services Act.
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