The Court made consent orders removing certain affidavits and a statement of claim from the court file and replacing them with redacted versions, following settlement of employment litigation involving general protections and confidential information claims. [name withheld] balanced the open justice principle under s 37AE of the Federal Court of Australia Act against the public interest in facilitating settlement under s 37M(1), following the approach of Jagot J in Porter v ABC [2021] FCA 863. The Court was satisfied that the redactions were sufficiently confined relative to the interest in securing the settlement, and that documents filed but not read as evidence did not engage the open justice principle and could be removed without redacted replacements.
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