- Derryn Hinch to challenge charges over naming sex offenders
- The Herald Sun
- 29/10/2008 Make a Comment
- Contributed by: The Rooster ( 264 articles in 2008 )
OUTSPOKEN broadcaster Derryn Hinch will challenge charges against him for allegedly naming and shaming sex offenders in defiance of court orders.
Hinch, today appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court charged with contempt of court for allegedly breaching five Victorian County Court suppression orders which prohibited him from naming sexual offenders.
It is alleged Hinch named the offenders at a victims of crime rally on the steps of the Victorian parliament in June and on his website.
His lawyer Peter Faris QC said Hinch would challenge the suppression orders in the Victorian Supreme Court arguing they were a breach of his human rights and of his freedom of speech.
He said they would also argue the suppression orders was not in the public interest.
Outside court, Hinch said what he did was morally right.
"At this stage we are challenging the suppression orders themselves and the way the case was allegedly heard,'' Mr Hinch said.
"I have said before, what I did, what I have done, I think is morally right, and it is up to the courts to decide whether I am legally right or wrong.''
Hinch, today appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court charged with contempt of court for allegedly breaching five Victorian County Court suppression orders which prohibited him from naming sexual offenders.
It is alleged Hinch named the offenders at a victims of crime rally on the steps of the Victorian parliament in June and on his website.
His lawyer Peter Faris QC said Hinch would challenge the suppression orders in the Victorian Supreme Court arguing they were a breach of his human rights and of his freedom of speech.
He said they would also argue the suppression orders was not in the public interest.
Outside court, Hinch said what he did was morally right.
"At this stage we are challenging the suppression orders themselves and the way the case was allegedly heard,'' Mr Hinch said.
"I have said before, what I did, what I have done, I think is morally right, and it is up to the courts to decide whether I am legally right or wrong.''
Source: https://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24570429-5005961,00.html
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