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Callum Godde and Allanah Sciberras

'Misleading': top judge rejects court secrecy claims

A suppression order on media identifying convicted rapist Tom Silvagni sparked community outrage. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Claims that gag orders are making one state's court system the nation's least transparent have been rejected by its chief justice.

Analysis from Monash University found that in 2023, Victorian courts accounted for 521 of the 1113 suppression orders issued across Australia, a figure that surpassed all the other states and territories.

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