Elizabeth Hollingworth

The Honourable Justice
Elizabeth Hollingworth
Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 June 2004
Personal details
NationalityAustralian
EducationUniversity of Western Australia
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
OccupationJudge, lawyer

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]

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]

On 2 October 2014, Hollingworth sentenced Dylan Closter to 9 years and 3 months (6 years non parole) over the one-punch death of David Cassai, which fueled Cassai's mother to lobby for harsher sentencing in relation to one-punch deaths.[7]

On 29 October 2019, Hollingworth sentenced Codey Herrmann to 36 years (30 years non parole) over the murder of Aiia Maasarwe.[8]

On 19 December 2023, Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika is released into the community after Hollingworth granted his release on an extended supervision order.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Honourable Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth". Melbourne Law School. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  2. ^ Rowan Callick (1 August 2014). "Bribery case for overseas eyes only". The Australian.
  3. ^ "Australian court's gagging order condemned as 'abuse of legal process'". The Guardian. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Australia-wide censorship order for corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam". WikiLeaks. 29 July 2014.
  6. ^ DPP (Cth) v Brady [2015] VSC 246 (16 June 2015), Supreme Court of Victoria.
  7. ^ "One-punch killer Dylan John Closter sentenced to six years jail over NYE death of David Cassai in Rye". Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Codey Herrmann jailed for 36 years for rape and murder of Aiia Maasarwe". Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  9. ^ Silva, Kristian (19 December 2023). "Victorian Supreme Court grants Abdul Nacer Benbrika release on an extended supervision order". ABC News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.


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