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Arguably, the Wikileaks summary goes too far in claiming that the order "forbids any discloures (sic), by publication or otherwise, of any information relating
by sjy 12y ago
Arguably, the Wikileaks summary goes too far in claiming that the order "forbids any discloures (sic), by publication or otherwise, of any information relating to the court case by anyone." The order is limited to disclosure that "reveals, implies, suggests or alleges" that various specified politicians received, attempted to receive, or were intended to receive a bribe.
It is not really clear that the orders themselves (sans the Bird affidavit) "suggest" that bribes were attempted or intended. It's also unclear whether the explicit inclusion of "the terms of these orders" is supposed to resolve this question or merely state that disclosure of the orders themselves could be an offence.
Perhaps this explains why the affidavit itself wasn't leaked.
- hadoukenio 12y agoThe ABC has a writeup today about WikiLeaks publishing the suppression order, but gives zero information about what was in. I think that gives a good indication as to what the ABC's legal team thought about publishing the contents of the suppression order: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-30/wikileaks-publish-details-of-suppression/5634800 It's going to be interesting to see what the papers say tomorrow. But even more importantly, it's going to be really interesting to see what MediaWatch has to say about this.