A Queensland Justice of the Peace has denied or adjourned functions by main media firms to disclose the id of a high-profile man accused of rape.
The person, going through two prices of raping a girl in October 2021, had his case talked about for the second time in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Solicitors for Information Corp, Seven and 9 networks, and the ABC utilized to Justice of the Peace Kay Philipson to make use of her discretionary powers to grant an exemption to Queensland’s Sexual Offenses Act that prohibits naming individuals accused of rape except and till they’re dedicated to face trial.
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Philipson mentioned it was written within the “strict development” of the legislation that she couldn’t use these powers except the matter proceeded to a committal listening to.
“I am doing no extra on this point out that figuring out the place proceedings are at and what the subsequent step is. I am not holding a committal right now, I am not taking witnesses right now,” she mentioned.
The high-profile man was excused from showing in particular person and his barrister Andrew Hoare mentioned there had been points with some components of the prosecution’s digital transient of proof not functioning.
Hoare mentioned prosecutors had sought a forensic obtain of proof and his shopper’s authorized workforce would want six weeks to look at the prosecution’s transient of proof.
Philipson granted an software for the matter to be adjourned till April 5 at Toowoomba Magistrates Courtroom and prolonged the accused man’s bail.
The media organizations’ lawyer, Xander Croft, mentioned his purchasers would proceed to pursue their software to call the accused man.
