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Richard Ackland

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Richard Ackland publishes justinian.com.au, glj.com.au & richardackland.com.au ... Now at @justiniannews.bsky.social
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Inside Local Court 3.1 for the Alan Jones indecent assault trial

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By Richard Ackland
| The Saturday Paper Verified
Alan Jones is an old man. He’s 85 with hearing aids and a walking stick. He’s bent and, because of a “crook knee”, he’s a bit wobbly on his feet. The Saturday Paper was sitting directly behind him in Local Court 3.1 in Sydney’s Downing Centre – a centre named after former Labor attorney-general Reg Downing and known among the criminal law fraternity as the Drowning Centre. It occupies the recycled Mark Foy’s department store, a magnificent structure created by a couple of Irish brothers.
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A man has been found guilty of rape but we can’t say who he is. Why are there exceptions to open justice?

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By Richard Ackland
| Inkl
A count of these orders is religiously kept by Gina McWilliams, a senior legal counsel at News Corp. Her tally for 2025 totalled 1,226 suppression and no-publication orders Australia-wide. Victoria, including the civil and administrative tribunal, issued 640 – under the ambit of the Orwellian-named Open Courts Act. Raw data doesn’t explain the reason for this.
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A man has been found guilty of rape but we can’t say who he is. Why are there exceptions to open justice?

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By Richard Ackland
| MSN UK Verified
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