The Court refused a self-represented applicant's application to anonymise or suppress published reasons for a dismissed Part 7 Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act application. Emmett J raised but did not resolve whether the CSNPO Act applies to Part 7 CAR Act applications, given that such applications are administrative rather than judicial and may not constitute 'proceedings' within the CSNPO Act's definition of 'civil or criminal proceedings'. Regardless, the Court held that as an administrative matter it had power to decide whether to publish, and that the public interest in transparency and scrutiny of Part 7 decisions outweighed the applicant's evidence of potential reputational and psychological harm, particularly where the applicant's prior Part 7 decision and criminal proceedings were already in the public domain.
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