The identity of a high-profile man accused of rape will remain secret after he was granted a new interim order despite his solicitors failing to comply with previous court directions.
The man, who remains on bail, faces two counts of raping a woman at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, in October 2021.
Magistrate Kay Philipson criticised the man’s legal team for seeking a similar order in the Supreme Court last week without telling her, for not following a direction to provide notice for the new application and not providing supporting material in a timely manner. Queensland’s new laws did not require Philipson to consider the merits of granting a permanent non-publication order on the man’s name, but his solicitor Rowan King told the court his client’s mental health was at risk if he was named by the media.“Safety [of the defendant] includes psychological safety including the risk of harm by suicide or other self-harm through a worsening psychiatric condition,” King said.
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