00:00The delay in this case is because the proceedings are going to move from the
00:05Supreme Court up to the Court of Appeal and that seems to have been a move that
00:09was supported by all parties today. There was an agreement between all sides
00:13that that is the most appropriate course of action due to the complexity and the
00:18urgency involved in these proceedings. There's going to be a constitutional
00:22issue raised in this case which stems from the interaction or the clash of two
00:28different pieces of legislation. On the one hand in New South Wales there are legal
00:32protections afforded to participants of authorized public assemblies in one piece
00:37of legislation and in this case there's going to be submissions about how that
00:42interacts with specific laws that cover the Sydney Opera House area. We heard
00:47today from Nick Hanna who is one of the lawyers involved in this case and he
00:51says as part of the proceedings the police are going to argue that those
00:54protections afforded to protesters as part of the form one system, the rally
01:00permit system in New South Wales, are confined to a relatively narrow area of
01:05offences. What that means in relation to the upcoming protests that's scheduled to
01:09be at the Opera House is that the specific offences that relate to certain
01:14activities of the Opera House people won't be protected from those under the
01:19form one system and we we challenge that and we also say that it's
01:23unconstitutional and for that reason that both parties and ultimately Justice
01:27Harrison today have agreed that it's more appropriate to be dealt with by the
01:31Court of Appeal tomorrow. So in short between now and tomorrow morning when we
01:34come back here at 9 30 there are going to be many lawyers who will be very busy
01:38preparing submissions and arguments. Although this case is quite similar to
01:43what we've previously seen when New South Wales Police have taken the
01:46organisers of rallies to court to challenge their plans, it seems like this
01:51case in particular is going to get very technical and very complicated compared
01:55to the other cases we've seen.
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