All submissions on a pre-trial application to change the venue for David Bain's retrial were suppressed by a judge in a High Court hearing at Christchurch yesterday.
At present the retrial is set down to begin in Dunedin on August 11.
A defence application to change the venue from Dunedin was the subject of yesterday's hearing before Justice Graham Panckhurst.
At the end of the three-hour hearing, the judge reserved his decision and imposed an order preventing publication of any of the submissions by defence counsel Michael Reed QC and Paul Morten and Crown counsel Keiran Raftery during the contested application.
The suppression orders are to remain in force until a verdict is reached or until the court orders otherwise.
Bain was committed for retrial by the Solicitor-general in June 2007 after the Privy Council quashed his convictions for murdering his mother Margaret, father Robin, sisters Arawa (19) and Laniet (18) and his 14-year-old brother Stephen at the family home in Dunedin in 1994.
He was granted bail in May 2007 having served 13 years.
