DPP v Vic

• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Jurisdiction
  3. › Supreme Court
  4. › Unlimited jurisdiction under s 85 Constitution Act 1975
  5. › Power to vary suppression orders made by other Victorian courts
  6. › Whether jurisdiction extends to orders made before and after commencement of Open Courts Act 2013
  7. › Constitution Act 1975 (Vic), s 85
• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Suppression orders
  3. › Prosecutorial duty of disclosure
  4. › Whether statutory powers permit suppression orders limiting prosecutorial duty of disclosure
  5. › Whether principle of legality requires reading down of powers by reference to right to fair trial
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), s 18(1)(c)
  7. › County Court Act 1958 (Vic), s 80(1)(c)
  8. › Magistrates' Court Act 1989 (Vic), s 126(2)(c)
  9. › Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic), ss 17, 18
• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Suppression orders
  3. › Variation of orders
  4. › Risk of harm to specific individual
  5. › Whether variation should be attenuated by conditions protecting safety of individual
  6. › Whether party seeking to preserve orders discharged onus of establishing necessity
  7. › Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic), s 18
• 1. Courts and Judges
  2. › Jurisdiction
  3. › Consent orders
  4. › Whether consent order determinative of jurisdiction
  5. › Level of scrutiny applied to jurisdiction when orders made by consent

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