sub judice

Dixon threw out the “sub judice” contempt charges against News Corp’s Courier Mail and Daily Telegraph, and Nine Entertainment’s Sydney Morning Herald and 2GB Radio and the four editors associated with those.

The rules of sub judice contempt require that journalists cannot report someone is guilty of a crime before they are convicted, which is why the word “alleged” is so ubiquitous in crime reporting.

Kasingye said that commenting on the matter would be sub judice.

Schillings also said Lord Hain had broken the sub judice rules in an abuse of parliamentary privilege.

The same 34 were also charged with breaching the suppression order and sub judice contempt, the publishing of material that could interfere with the administration of justice.