Underbelly, the Nine Network's series on Melbourne's gangland war, will finally be able to screen in part in Victoria after a Supreme Court ruling today.
Nine has been granted permission to air edited versions of episodes one to five of the series, effective immediately.
Justice Peter Vickery handed down the finding today after a new application was made to keep the series off the air.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Betty King imposed the original suppression order on the series in February on the basis it could prejudice the trial of Evangelos Goussis, who was accused of, and later found guilty of murdering underworld figure, Lewis Moran, in March 2004.
Nine's appeal was dismissed in June by justices Marilyn Warren, Frank Vincent and Murray Kellam.
The suppression expired when Goussis was found guilty of Moran's murder in May but Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke warned against publication of any part of the series in Victoria while other criminal trials linked to the underworld were pending.
The 13-part Underbelly series, which premiered in most of Australia on February 13, portrays the underworld wars which raged in Melbourne from 1995 to 2004 and left 27 people dead.
A Nine Network spokeswoman said there was no comment from the network at this stage.
