Elizabeth Hollingworth
Elizabeth Hollingworth is a Trials Division justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria. She was appointed to the bench in June 2004, after a 15-year career as a lawyer beginning in 1989.[1]
Elizabeth Hollingworth | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
| Assumed office 7 June 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | University of Western Australia University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Judge, lawyer |
In June 2014, Hollingworth made an order banning any reporting, including on the affidavit provided by Gillian Bird,[2] in Australia,[3] about a case involving Securency International, a partially state-owned company at the time, allegedly involved in the bribery of officials to win currency printing contracts.[4] The order was published by WikiLeaks in July 2014,[5] and Hollingworth revoked the suppression order in June 2015.[6]
References
- "Honourable Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth". Melbourne Law School. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
- Rowan Callick (1 August 2014). "Bribery case for overseas eyes only". The Australian.
- "Australian court's gagging order condemned as 'abuse of legal process'". The Guardian. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- "Securency international: Australian authorities charge central bank subsidiaries for corruption". Norton Rose Fulbright. July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- "Australia-wide censorship order for corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam". Wikileaks. 29 July 2014.
- DPP (Cth) v Brady [2015] VSC 246 (16 June 2015), Supreme Court (Vic).
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