Solomon Lew loses suppression application

Billionaire businessman Solomon Lew has lost an application to suppress media reporting of a multi-million dollar family trust stoush.

A barrister for Mr Lew argued it was necessary to suppress reporting of the case to protect Mr Lew’s grandchildren from schoolyard gossip and harassment.

But in rejecting Mr Lew’s application on Tuesday, Justice Jennifer Davies said concern that the proceeding would have a detrimental emotional effect on Mr Lew’s grandchildren was not supported by probative evidence.

“The concern to that effect expressed by Mr and Mrs Lew and the Lew children is an insufficient basis upon which the court can reasonably reach the conclusion that it is necessary to make an order restricting publication,” she said.

“Mere belief that the order is necessary is insufficient.”

Mr Lew was ordered to pay the media’s costs.

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