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 / Speaker
9.45-10am / Registration
10am / Welcome & outline of sessions / Associate Professor Tom Morton (UTS) & Kate Burns, CEO Rule of Law Institute of Australia
10.10 -11am / Suppression Orders: A Fine Balance
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 / Peter Bartlett, Partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers, Chair of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University
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 Herald-Sun, 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? / 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.
12.45 – 1.30pm / Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 pm / The UK situation: Translucent justice? Digital and physical access to UK courts
Current Research and Issues in Open Justice - Australia / Judith Townsend, Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University, London
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 / Mark Pearson (Griffith) and Tom Morton (ACIJ, UTS)
4.15pm / Wrap-up / Wendy Bacon Associate ACIJ & Kate Burns

Note: Drinks will follow the workshop

Justice Open and Shut: 4 June 2014