---
title: "Victorian proceeding suppression order check"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/defamation-and-media-law/vic-proceeding-suppression-check"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a33-vic-proceeding-suppression-check"
area_id: "A33"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A33-F20261018-5"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Victorian proceeding suppression order check

> A check that copies a Victorian proceeding suppression order and sets what it prohibits against the grounds in the Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic) sections 17 and 18.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/defamation-and-media-law/vic-proceeding-suppression-check  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Defamation & Media Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/defamation-and-media-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Victoria.

## When to use it

Use before reporting on a Victorian court or tribunal proceeding, to record the order that is in force and the ground printed on it. It does not decide that the order was validly made or breached.

## Used for these tasks

- [Check suppression and non-publication orders before reporting on court proceedings](https://ailawframework.com/practice/defamation-and-media-law.md#A33-F20261018-5)

## How AI may be used

AI may copy the order's prohibitions and the ground printed on it into the section 18 list, and must not decide that the order is valid or that it has been contravened.

**AI may:**

- Copy the court or tribunal, the proceeding, and the words of the order from the order the principal supplies
- Mark the section 18 ground that is printed on the order

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide that the order was necessary, or that it was validly made
- Must not decide that a report would contravene the order
- Must not add a penalty, or a ground that is not in section 18
- Must not draft submissions for or against an order

**The lawyer checks:**

- The order in the file is the current order, including any later variation the principal has obtained
- The principal reads the procedure for making an order, which was not opened here
- The principal decides what may be published
- Other states' suppression statutes were not opened

## Authorities

- [Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic) s 17](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/oca2013157/s17.html)
- [Open Courts Act 2013 (Vic) s 18](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/oca2013157/s18.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/defamation-and-media-law/vic-proceeding-suppression-check and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*