Notable Cases
Rozenes appeared as Counsel in the following reported cases:
High Court
- Ridgeway v The Queen (1995) 78 A Crim R 307
- Cheatle v The Queen (1993) 177 CLR 541
- Dietrich v The Queen (1992) 177 CLR 292
- Commissioner of Australian Federal Police v Propend Finance Pty Limited (1997) 188 CLR 501
- Re Rozenes, Director of Public Prosecutions and Another; Ex parte Burd and Others (1994) 120 ALR 193
- Michaels v The Queen (1995) 184 CLR 117
Court of Appeal – Supreme Court of Victoria
- Rozenes and Anor v Kelly and Ords 1 VR 320
County Court of Victoria
- "R v McManus and Harvey" (Victorian County Court, June 2007) Rozenes presided over the landmark media case during which two journalists (Gerard McManus & Michael Harvey) refused to reveal their sources for a story they wrote for the Herald Sun newspaper. In sentencing the two journalists, Rozenes said: "Courts in Australia and England have made clear statements to the effect that journalists are not above the law and may not without penalty expect to be permitted to follow their personal collegiate standards where those standards conflict with the law of the land. Until that law is altered, if it is ever to be, then journalists remain in no different position than all other citizens." As a consequence of the case, federal and state governments in Australia moved to change the law to permit judges discretion to take into consideration the journalist's code of never revealing their source.
Junior in
- A v Hayden ("ASIS Case") (1984) 156 CLR 532 to G. Griffith QC
- Baker Plaintiff; and Campbell Defendant 153 CLR 52 to D M J Bennett QC
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