WEQ v Medical Board of Australia
Court of Appeal
Kyrou and McLeish JJA
08/12/2021
[2021] VSCA 343
Practice and procedure — Proceeding suppression order — Necessity test — Proceeding suppression order made in disciplinary proceedings in Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal — Disciplinary proceedings arose from notification made to regulator by Family Court of Australia — Materials in Family Court proceeding released to regulator on condition that confidentiality orders sought — Whether order in the interests of justice — Whether order necessary to prevent substantial risk of prejudice to proper administration of justice — Whether scope of order confined to what necessary to achieve purpose — Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic), ss 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 — Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), s 121
Words and phrases — ‘interests of justice’
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