Bernard Collaery
Collaery was a member of the Australian Capital Territorys first Legislative Assembly for the Residents Rally party from 1989 to 1992. 22 hours agoBernard Collaery was charged in 2018 with helping his client an ex-spy known only as Witness K to reveal details of an alleged Australian spying operation in East Timor.
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22 hours agoMr Collaery a former ACT Attorney-General was facing jail after being charged with assisting his client Witness K to leak classified information about Australias alleged spying operation in East Timor in 2004.
. Former attorney general of the Australian Capital Territory ACT Collaery came onto the scene after Witness K on being involved in a workplace dispute in 2008 revealed that he had directed the. Proceedings have been opaque and expensive. Timor-Leste appoints lawyer Bernard Collaery to represent the country in The Hague in a bid to get the treaty ripped up following the bugging revelations.
23 hours agoAttorney-General Mark Dreyfus ordered the Commonwealth to drop the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery four years after he was charged with leaking classified information about Australias alleged spying operation in East Timor. Bernard Collaery advised the East Timor Resistance for more than thirty years providing advice on international law and other matters during the United Nations Transitional Administration from 1999. He served as Deputy Chief Minister and Attorney-General from 1989 to 1991 in the Kaine Alliance Government.
The Attorney-General has ordered the case against lawyer Bernard Collaery be dropped four years after he was charged with leaking details of an alleged Australian spy operation in East Timor. Bernard Collaery is an Australian barrister lawyer and former politician. Four relate to Collaerys communications with the ABC.
Earlier this year a trial date had finally been set for 24 October. Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery will face trial in the ACT Supreme Court in October four years after he was first charged with conspiring to release classified information about an alleged spying operation in East Timor. Witness Ks passport was also cancelled.
The most important prerogative powers of the Attorney-General as Chief Law Officer are the power to initiate and. ASIO carry out raids on Mr Collaerys office and the home of Witness K who was expected to give evidence in the trial. Mr Collaerys case has so far been bogged down in a dispute over secrecy with the federal government.
19 hours agoHe had sought out Collaery to help him correct an enduring wrong one that had betrayed an impoverished ally to benefit Australia and a collection of corporations seeking to exploit the Timor Sea. Bernard Collaery Australian Charged along with Witness K for allegedly breaching the Intelligence Services Act 2001 and forbidden from talking about the charges against him Bernard Collaery provides the whole sordid backstory to Australian politics biggest scandal in Oil Under Troubled Water. 22 hours agoJul 7 2022 217pm Share Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ordered the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery be dropped ending a four-year legal saga over the leaking of classified information.
Bernard Collaery is continuing to fight in the ACT Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court in Canberra. Three years ago Collaery an eminent Canberra lawyer was charged with five secrecy offences. Witness K was meanwhile sentenced last year to a suspended three-month jail term after pleading guilty.
One involves an alleged conspiracy with Witness K Collaerys client and a former spy to communicate secrets to the government of Timor-Leste. A 22-year-old speech by the late long-serving federal and ACT Judge John Gallop provides all that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus needs to consider in the case of Bernard Collaery and Witness K. As a former Canberran I know how highly he has been regarded by the local community there as a person of honesty decency and integrity.
1 day agoJul 7 2022. Human Rights Law Centre. Former Witness K lawyer Bernard Collaery says a ruling that lifts secrecy over significant parts of his trial is a victory for justice and a.
His prosecution for Collaerys alleged role in exposing Australias espionage against friendly neighbours Timor-Leste is profoundly unjust. Bernard Collaery is fighting the charges and it is understood that Witness K has not finalised his plea. These charges have been called one of the greatest threats to freedom of expression in this country and an increasing number of Australians decry the prosecutions as a travesty of justice and threat to our democracy.
21 hours agoThe case against Mr Collaery a former ACT Attorney-General involved alleged discussions with journalists regarding allegations of espionage by ASIS Australias overseas secret intelligence agency against Timor-Leste during Timor Sea oil and gas negotiations. The sorry saga of the prosecution of Bernard Collaery an eminent Canberra lawyer has seen a number of unhappy chapters. He acted for East Timor at the International Court of Justice in relation to a maritime sea boundary dispute with Australia.
The Australian Government has already spent some 2 million AUD prosecuting Collaery and Witness K despite the proceedings being still only in a pre-trial stage. Bernard Collaery fits this bill and then some Mr Collaery has been contacted for comment. Bernard Collaery By Patricia Morgan Mullumbimby December 14 2021 1 I commend you on your latest update on the unjust treatment of Bernard Collaery Government pursues whistle-blower in courts the 17 March.
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