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HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

GAGELER CJ,

GORDON, EDELMAN, STEWARD, GLEESON, JAGOT AND BEECH-JONES JJ

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AND

AB (a pseudonym) v Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission
[2024] HCA 10
Date of Hearing: 7 December 2023
Date of Judgment: 13 March 2024
M63/2023

ORDER

1. Appeal allowed.

2. Set aside orders 1 and 4 made by the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 15 December 2022 and, in their place, order that:

(a) the application for leave to appeal be granted;

(b) orders 1 and 2 made by Ginnane J on 4 October 2022 be set aside and in their place:

(i) note the undertaking given by the respondent to the High Court of Australia on 7 December 2023 that it will not transmit to the Parliament of Victoria a report pursuant to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011 (Vic) containing the proposed comment or opinion set out in the sixth paragraph on page 32 of the appellants' Book of Further Materials filed in the High Court of Australia;