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The Gold Logie winner Craig McLachlan will have to face allegations he acted inapprotiately on the set of Neighbours in the 1980s as part of a defamation case against Fairfax Mediaand the ABC.
Crooks have been tuning into video hearings since Covid broke out last year
Video links had been used only as a last resort in Victorian courts before now
While the links allow rapid turnover of cases, they are often reduced to a farce
The links have been used by villains to threaten and intimidate witnesses
Many crooks stream in without actually identifying themselves to the court
Legal insiders believe the links have dangerously denigrated the court system