Model provisions for Suppression Orders
May 6, 2010 |
In a welcome development the Standing Committee of Attorneys – General have endorsed a model provisions for suppression and non publication orders.
Of particular interest is:
an online register will be established to improve the dissemination of information about suppression orders and provide for the distribution of details on a national scale; and
a register which will be a national ‘first point of contact’ with courts and tribunals providing basic data about whether a suppression order has been made in a particular case and relevant contact information enabling interested parties to make further enquiries.
Richard Ackland has an interesting piece (coincidentally) in today’s SMH on a speech given by David Levine, former New South Wales Supreme Court justice and general doyen of defamation law.
