Elizabeth Hollingworth

The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth
Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2004
Personal details
Education	University of Western Australia St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Occupation	Judge, lawyer

Elizabeth Hollingworth is a Trials Division justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria. She was appointed to the bench in June 2004, after a 15-year career as a lawyer beginning in 1989. ^[1]

In June 2014, Hollingworth made an order banning any reporting, including on the affidavit provided by Gillian Bird, ^[2] in Australia, ^[3] about a case involving Securency International, a partially state-owned company at the time, allegedly involved in the bribery of officials to win currency printing contracts. ^[4] The order was published by WikiLeaks in July 2014, ^[5] and Hollingworth revoked the suppression order in June 2015. ^[6]

On 2 October 2014, Hollingworth sentenced Dylan Closter to 9 years and 3 months (6 years non parole) over the one-punch death of David Cassai, which fueled Cassai's mother to lobby for harsher sentencing in relation to one-punch deaths. ^[7]

On 29 October 2019, Hollingworth sentenced Codey Herrmann to 36 years (30 years non parole) over the murder of Aiia Maasarwe. ^[8]

On 19 December 2023, Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika was released into the community after Hollingworth granted his release on an extended supervision order. ^[9]

References

1. "Honourable Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth". Melbourne Law School . Retrieved 4 October 2013.
2. Rowan Callick (1 August 2014). "Bribery case for overseas eyes only". The Australian .
3. "Australian court's gagging order condemned as 'abuse of legal process'". The Guardian . 30 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
4. "Securency international: Australian authorities charge central bank subsidiaries for corruption". Norton Rose Fulbright. July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
5. "Australia-wide censorship order for corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam". WikiLeaks. 29 July 2014.
6. DPP (Cth) v Brady [2015] VSC 246 (16 June 2015), Supreme Court of Victoria.
7. "One-punch killer Dylan John Closter sentenced to six years jail over NYE death of David Cassai in Rye" . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
8. "Codey Herrmann jailed for 36 years for rape and murder of Aiia Maasarwe" . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
9. Silva, Kristian (19 December 2023). "Victorian Supreme Court grants Abdul Nacer Benbrika release on an extended supervision order". ABC News. Retrieved 19 December 2023.