stupidmeatball
24th Jun 2008, 08:04 PM
Channel 9 to pay Underbelly costs
Article from: AAP
June 11, 2008 03:31pm
CHANNEL 9 has been ordered to pay the costs of its appeal against a ban on the screening in Victoria of its gangland series Underbelly.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Betty King imposed a suppression order on the series in February on the basis it could prejudice a murder trial.
The order banning the publication, broadcasting or exhibition of the series until the trial was over, was appealed, but that appeal was dismissed.
In the Victorian Court of Appeal today, Justices Marilyn Warren, Frank Vincent and Murray Kellam ruled the Director of Public Prosecutions' application for costs should succeed.
"As this is a civil matter, costs should follow the event," the judges ruled.
"There is no sound reason to depart from the usual approach."
The ban on screening the series expired recently when a jury found Geelong man Evangelos Goussis guilty of murdering underworld figure Lewis Moran in Melbourne in March 2004.
However, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Jeremy Rapke QC warned against publication of any part of the series in Victoria while other criminal trials linked to the underworld were pending.
The 13-part Underbelly series, which premiered in most of Australia on February 13, portrays the underworld wars which raged in Melbourne from 1995 to 2004 and left 27 people dead.
I know I'm a bit late with this, but it just occured to me that karma does exist, what with Nine cancelling The Mick Molloy Show and Micallef Tonight, two shows that were axed just as they were finding their feet, perhaps Betty King is a comedy fan? Nine can have fun eventually screening Underbelly in Victoria, even though most people have seen it, it wont rate and Nine loses some advertising $$.
I'm a very bitter person:D
Article from: AAP
June 11, 2008 03:31pm
CHANNEL 9 has been ordered to pay the costs of its appeal against a ban on the screening in Victoria of its gangland series Underbelly.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Betty King imposed a suppression order on the series in February on the basis it could prejudice a murder trial.
The order banning the publication, broadcasting or exhibition of the series until the trial was over, was appealed, but that appeal was dismissed.
In the Victorian Court of Appeal today, Justices Marilyn Warren, Frank Vincent and Murray Kellam ruled the Director of Public Prosecutions' application for costs should succeed.
"As this is a civil matter, costs should follow the event," the judges ruled.
"There is no sound reason to depart from the usual approach."
The ban on screening the series expired recently when a jury found Geelong man Evangelos Goussis guilty of murdering underworld figure Lewis Moran in Melbourne in March 2004.
However, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Jeremy Rapke QC warned against publication of any part of the series in Victoria while other criminal trials linked to the underworld were pending.
The 13-part Underbelly series, which premiered in most of Australia on February 13, portrays the underworld wars which raged in Melbourne from 1995 to 2004 and left 27 people dead.
I know I'm a bit late with this, but it just occured to me that karma does exist, what with Nine cancelling The Mick Molloy Show and Micallef Tonight, two shows that were axed just as they were finding their feet, perhaps Betty King is a comedy fan? Nine can have fun eventually screening Underbelly in Victoria, even though most people have seen it, it wont rate and Nine loses some advertising $$.
I'm a very bitter person:D