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Identification of a suspect before being charged: legitimate freedom of speech or a threat to a fair trial?

Identification of a person suspected of a heinous crime before being charged risks prejudicing a fair trial. Present laws place this type of publicity outside the reach of sub judice contempt. This thesis argues there should be a change in the law of sub judice contempt making it an offence for the media to publish the fact that a person is under investigation until the person has been charged.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/265171
Date January 2005
CreatorsBurgess, Craig Neilson
PublisherQueensland University of Technology
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Craig Neilson Burgess

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