LG v Brian Brock as executor of the estate of the late Leo Clarke [2016] NSWSC 323

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: LG v Brian Brock as executor of the estate of the late Leo Clarke [2016] NSWSC 323 Hearing dates: 29 February 2016, 1 March 2016, 10 – 11 March 2016 Date of orders: 11 March 2016 Decision date: 11 March 2016 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Fagan J Decision: 1. In respect of the subpoenas served on the second defendant and the Professional Standards Office, NSW, filed on 25 June 2015 (as amended), the plaintiff and her legal advisers may have access to all documents produced in response to those subpoenas in an un-redacted form.

2. Upon the grounds that suppression and non-publication of the name and identity of various complainants of sexual abuse appearing in documents produced in the subpoenas referred to in Order 1 are necessary in the public interest because of the personal sensitivity of the subject matter of their complaints and the potential for disclosure or publication of their name or identity to cause them undue distress and embarrassment - it is ordered pursuant to s7 of the Court Suppression and Non-publication Act 2010 (NSW) that:

(a) neither the full name of the complainants nor any other particulars which might enable them to be identified is or are to be disclosed to any person other than the parties to the proceedings;

(b) the complainants are to be referred to in all documents filed in Court or records of the proceedings only by pseudonyms to be agreed by the parties and in due course notified to the Court; and (c) the publication of the complainants' full name and/or of any other particulars which might enable them to be identified is prohibited.