Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach has taken a swipe at his Victorian Supreme Court counterparts (which include his brother).
Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach took a swipe at his Victorian Supreme Court compatriots this month, casting aspersions on their document-suppressing proclivities., his honour was less than impressed with attempts by the luxury car manufacturer to get him to close the court to preserve the confidentiality of internal emails about company strategy.“I’m not going to do that, you’re in the Federal Court of Australia, not the Supreme Court of Victoria,” he said.
Fiery words from a man whose brother sits on the Victorian Court of Appeal and whose father was an esteemed QC and Supreme Court judge. Victoria holds the dubious honour of having the worst reputation of all the states for suppressing court documents. In 2011, its Supreme Court infamously banned the publication of any information regarding the Securency and Note Printing Australia RBA bribery scandal, including the existence of the gag order itself., Christopher Archibald, QC, that he couldn’t “for the life of me see any reason I should protect this document for your benefit”.
“And I won’t have you standing up and interrupting every time a document of this nature is referred to,” he added. “In fact, I can’t for the life of me work out how this document, which has no financial data and no forecasts included, is confidential.”
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