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. In June 2014, Hollingworth made an order banning any reporting, including on the affidavit provided by

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, in Australia, 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. The order was published by

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in July 2014, and Hollingworth revoked the suppression order in June 2015. On October 2, 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 David's mum to lobby for harsher sentencing in relation to 1 punch deaths. On October 29, 2019, Hollingworth sentenced Codey Herrmann to 36 years (30 years non parole) over the murder of Aiia Maasarwe.

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