Victoria Police v Adrian Bayley, Melbourne Magistrates' Court (Criminal), Court 13, 12 March 2013 (C12725657), Broughton DCM presiding. All references herein to this matter are taken from the audio recording of proceedings obtained from the court, with permission.
2.
Police v Gerard Robert Baden-Clay, Magistrates Court of Queensland, Unreported judgment delivered on 20 March 2013 by Judge Butler SC, Chief Magistrate.
3.
See, eg, BaskinBrooke, ‘Images released of home in which starved twins died in Brisbane's Sunnybank Hills’, The CourierMail (online), 7 August 2013.
SpigelmanJames, ‘The Principle of Open Justice: A Comparative Perspective’ (2006) 29(2) UNSW Law Journal147150.
7.
[1913] AC 417 at 473.
8.
Rinehart v Welker [2011] NSWCA 403 at [32] (Bathurst CJ and McColl JA), citing Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417 (at 463).
9.
‘Necessity’ and ‘exceptional circumstances’, raised in Rinehart v Welker at [27], are now part of the statutory framework at s 8(1) of the Court Suppression and Non-Publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW).
10.
Fairfax Digital Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd v Ibrahim [2012] NSWCCA 125, [8] (Bathurst CJ); [47–48] (Basten JA).
11.
CunliffeEmma, ‘Open Justice: Concepts and Judicial Approaches’ (2012) 40Federal Law Review385, 405.
12.
See Australian Law Reform Commission, Keeping Secrets: The Protection of Classified and Security Sensitive Information, ALRC98, 7.25, 2004.
13.
DawsonSandyRoughleyFiona, ‘Suppression and non-party access’, Bar News, Autumn 2013, 49, at 50.
14.
See BiberKatherine, ‘In Crime's Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Criminal Evidence’ (2013) 53(6) British Journal of Criminology, 1033, 1042–1045.
15.
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) Schedule 1. The Australian Privacy Principles commenced on 12 March 2014.
Practice Direction 7 of 2013, Application for Media Access to Materials, Principal Registrar, Magistrates' Court of Victoria, 29 July 2013.
28.
Audio Recording Protocols Facts Sheet, Magistrates' Court of Victoria, May 2013 The Chief Magistrate is required to make decisions wherever applications are made by non-parties, where proceedings are subject to suppression orders, or where the case relates to a sexual offence.
29.
Magistrates' Court Act 1989 (Vic) s 18(4).
30.
Request for Copy of Audio Recording, Magistrates' Court of Victoria, August 2013.
31.
Including Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 23; Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rule 36.12; District Court Rules, 1973, Pt 52 r 3; Local Court Rules 2009, Pt 8; Practice Note SC Gen 2 Access to court files' (Supreme Court); Practice Note No 11 Access to court files by nonparties' (District Court); Local Courts (Criminal and Applications Procedure) Rule 2003, Cl 62 Pt 9. But see also Practice Note SC CL 8 ‘Media Access to Sexual Assault Proceedings Heard in Camera’.
32.
See BiberKatherine, 'Evidence from the Archive: Implementing the Court Information Act in NSW (2011) 33(3) Sydney Law Review575.
33.
John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Ryde Local Court (2005) 62 NSWLR 512, per Spigelman CJ at [29]-[31], Mason P and Beazley JA agreeing.
34.
See, eg, Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) s 314.
35.
Per McHughJA, in John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd v Police Tribunal of NSW (1986) 5 NSWLR 465, 476. See also John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v District Court of NSW (2004) 61 NSWLR 344 per Spigelman CJ at [17]-[21]; John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Ryde Local Court (2005) 62 NSWLR 513 at [60]–[63].
36.
R v Tait (19779) 24 ALR 473, 487; Raybos Australia Pty Ltd v Jones (1985) 2 NSWLR 47, 58. See also ‘Non-publication paper’, Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book, Judicial Commission of NSW, 2013.
37.
ASIC v Rich (2001) 51 NSWLR 643. Austin J's eight considerations are consolidated in ‘Media access to court records and exhibits’, Civil Trials Bench Book, Judicial Commission of NSW, 2013.
38.
Supreme Court of NSW Practice Note SC Gen 2, at [7]; District Court of NSW Practice Note DC (Civil) 11, at [2].
39.
DawsonRoughley, above n 13 at 52.
40.
Application for Access to a Court File, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
41.
UCPR Rule 36.12 (2)(b).
42.
The commercial sale of transcripts justifies Queensland agencies refusing access to information under the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld), s 47(3)(f) and also s 53(d).
See NT Supreme Court Practice Direction 13 of 2001; in SA, non-parties can email the court for access to court documents, and a fee applies; see Tasmanian Criminal Rules 2006, r 13; see ACT Court Procedures Rule 2006 (ACT), r 4053(2).
49.
See WA Rules of the Supreme Court 1971, O 67, r 11.
