Media commentary about Carl Williams and his family not likely to prejudice their imminent trials. Justice Cummins extols the robustness of the jury ... more
Category: Suppression
Herald and Weekly Times & Ors v Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and Ors
Magistrate applied the wrong test in suppressing the name of a murdered police informer. Justice Whelan in the Victorian Supreme Court quashes suppression order ... more
John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v District Court of NSW
Fairfax challenges power of District Court to suppress publication of a guilty verdict where a second trial of the same accused is pending ... more