{"id":32185,"date":"2021-05-17T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/secrecy-challenge-by-witness-k-lawyer-bernard-collaery-will-itself-be-held-in-secret"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:55:22","slug":"secrecy-challenge-by-witness-k-lawyer-bernard-collaery-will-itself-be-held-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32185","title":{"rendered":"Secrecy challenge by Witness K lawyer Bernard Collaery will itself be held in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACT court closes hearing of appeal by lawyer representing whistleblower due to requirements of National Security Information Act<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jul\/10\/witness-k-lawyer-bernard-collaery-to-appeal-against-secrecy-in-timor-leste-bugging-trial\">A legal challenge to the secrecy of information<\/a> involved in the prosecution of a lawyer for representing whistleblower Witness K will itself be held in secret.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the ACT court of appeal began a two-day hearing of Bernard Collaery\u2019s appeal but closed the court to the public within five minutes due to the requirements of the National Security Information Act.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/secrecy-challenge-by-witness-k-lawyer-bernard-collaery-will-itself-be-held-in-secret\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACT court closes hearing of appeal by lawyer representing whistleblower due to requirements of National Security Information Act A legal challenge to the secrecy of information involved in the prosecution of a lawyer for representing whistleblower Witn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,322,769,664,1537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-law-australia","category-timor-leste","category-witness-k-case"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32185\/revisions\/32186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}