Justice Open and Shut: Suppression orders and open justice in Australia and the UK.
Wednesday 4 June 2014
VENUE: Maryann House, Level 3, 645 Harris St Ultimo
Time
Session
9.45-10am
10am
Registration
Welcome & outline of sessions
10.10 -11am
Suppression Orders: A Fine Balance
Speaker
Associate Professor Tom Morton (UTS) & Kate Burns, CEO Rule of Law
Institute of Australia
Peter Bartlett, Partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers, Chair of the Advisory
Board at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University
Peter will talk about some topical case studies that touch on the
issue of suppression orders, including
- the Rolf Harris trial
- 'Lawyer X'
- Julian Assange and Oscar Pistorius
11 - 11.30am
Reporting under Suppression – Journalists’ Experience of
Suppression Orders and Legal Restrictions on Reporting
Elissa Hunt, former court and legal affairs reporter with the HeraldSun, recently appointed as the Digital News Editor.
Adele Ferguson, senior business writer and columnist for The Age and
the Sydney Morning Herald and author of the unauthorised biography
‘Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World’.
11.30 –11.45am
Break
11.45 -12.45pm
Open Courts: Who Guards the Guardians?
12.45 – 1.30pm
Lunch
Justice Open and Shut: 4 June 2014
Hon. Philip Cummins, former Supreme Court judge, Chair of the
Victorian Law Reform Commission, Chair of the Victoria Law
Foundation and Chair of the Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children
Inquiry.
1.30 – 2.30 pm
The UK situation: Translucent justice? Digital and physical access
to UK courts
Judith Townsend, Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City
University, London
Current Research and Issues in Open Justice - Australia
Jason Bosland, Deputy Director of the Centre for Media and
Communications Law at Melbourne Law School
2.30 – 2.45pm
Break
2.45- 3.30pm
Testing the law in NSW: The big end of town and suppression
orders in security cases
Miiko Kumar, Barrister, Jack Shand Chambers and Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
3.30 – 4.15pm
The case of Patient A: Open justice, investigative journalism and
forensic patients
Wrap-up
Mark Pearson (Griffith) and Tom Morton (ACIJ, UTS)
4.15pm
Note: Drinks will follow the workshop
Justice Open and Shut: 4 June 2014
Wendy Bacon Associate ACIJ & Kate Burns