On 19 December 2023 this video was edited to remove references to out-of-court meetings between a judicial officer and the complainant prior to the Special Hearing.
This practice had been disapproved by the Court of Appeal in Alec (a pseudonym) v The King [2023] VSCA 208 and DPP v Smith [2023] VSCA 293, but on appeal, in DPP v Smith [2024] HCA 32, by majority the High Court found the meeting was authorised under s 389E(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 1958 (Vic) and did not give rise to any fundamental irregularity in the trial process, such as to constitute a serious departure from accepted trial processes.