Critical Media Law Issues - Contempt and Suppression Orders: Restrictions on Open Justice
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Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Contempt and Suppression Orders: Restrictions on Open Justice
Join an experienced practitioner, Marlia Saunders as she discusses and analyses recent developments in relation to non-publication orders, statutory restrictions and contempt of court including recommendations arising from the NSW Open Justice Report and the Queensland “Hear Her Voice” Report. Scrutinise how this may affect your daily practice and what the future holds for media law.
Presented by Marlia Saunders, Partner, Thomson Geer
Presenters
Marlia Saunders
Marlia is an experienced media/entertainment, intellectual property and privacy lawyer who has extensive top-tier law firm expertise and a unique client perspective after working as a senior in-house lawyer for many years. She recently joined national firm Thomson Geer as a Partner after working as the Senior Litigation Counsel at News Corp Australia for four years. Marlia previously worked at a top-tier international firm for 13 years where she acted for and advised most of Australia’s major media organisations, social media and streaming platforms, large corporates and government bodies. Marlia specialises in defamation, contempt of court, suppression orders, freedom of information and court access applications, confidential information claims, prepublication advice, copyright, consumer law and privacy matters.