Bernard Collaery

Witness K has been convicted and given a 3-month suspended sentence and a 12-month good behaviour bond while Bernard Collaery a highly-regarded member of the legal profession who has been supported throughout this ordeal by the Law Council of Australia potentially faces 2 years gaol. One involves an alleged conspiracy with Witness K Collaerys client and a former spy to communicate secrets to the government of Timor-Leste.

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Three years ago Collaery an eminent Canberra lawyer was charged with five secrecy offences.

. At last decency from a federal government. Collaery is accused of sharing protected intelligence information by helping his client the former spy Witness K expose Australias bugging of Timor-Leste government offices in 2004. The sorry saga of the prosecution of Bernard Collaery an eminent Canberra lawyer has seen a number of unhappy chapters.

14 hours agoJul 7 2022 217pm. Bernard Joseph Edward Collaery born 12 October 1944 is an Australian barrister lawyer and former politician. He served as Deputy Chief Minister and Attorney-General from 1989 to 1991 in the Kaine Alliance Government.

The Collaery family has seven grandkids as a result of their children. Witness Ks passport was also cancelled. 13 hours agoThe Attorney-General has ordered five secrecy charges against Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery be dropped.

In terms of labyrinthine callousness and indifference to justice the treatment of lawyer. MarkdreyfusQCMP the Attorney General drops the persecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery initiated by his predecessor unChristian Porter. According to Financial Review in 2020 Bernard Collaerys fight for democracy is known to everyone of the Collaery children and grandkids thanks to the Australia-East Timor incident.

Four relate to Collaerys communications with the ABC. Mr Collaery was facing five offences relating to the alleged unlawful communication of ASIS information contrary to the Intelligence Services Act 2001He was the lawyer for Witness K who was sentenced last year after pleading guilty to a single charge of. Receipts payments and supervision of the account will be handled exclusively by two bank signatories.

Andrew KennedyMr Collaery released a statement in response to the. 14 hours agoCanberra lawyer Bernard Collaery says the dropping of charges against him will allow him to move forward with his lifeABC News. Bernard Collaery fits this bill and then some Mr Collaery has been contacted for comment.

This fundraiser is being organised by Derk Swieringa on behalf of Bernard Collaery and all funds will be expended on Bernards disbursements and related costs. 15 hours agoCollaery a former ACT attorney-general faced the prospect of jail and his trail date had been set for October 24 after years of delays. 11 hours agoO n the last day of summer 2013 lawyer Bernard Collaery sat down to pen a missive to a client known only as Witness K.

His prosecution for Collaerys alleged role in exposing Australias espionage against friendly neighbours Timor-Leste is profoundly unjust. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ordered the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery be dropped ending. 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.

The client a veteran of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service had. ASIO carry out raids on Mr Collaerys office and the home of Witness K who was expected to give evidence in the trial. Collaery was a member of the Australian Capital Territorys first Legislative Assembly for the Residents Rally party from 1989 to 1992.

Attorney-General orders end to prosecution of Bernard Collaery. 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. A law that prohibits the disclosure of an illegal act.

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Witness K was meanwhile sentenced last year to a suspended three-month jail term after pleading guilty. The bureaucrats of secrecy were hoping that things might have been. 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.

23 hours agoJul 7 2022. The trial engages fundamental issues associated with the Rule of Law in Australia. This is the prosecution of Bernard Collaery the former ACT attorney-general and lawyer for Witness K the former ASIS officer turned whistleblower.

Lawyer Bernard Collaery addresses the media outside the supreme court in Canberra in August. Bernard Collaerys War Against Secret Trials by Binoy Kampmark April 21st 2022 In terms of labyrinthine callousness and indifference to justice the treatment of lawyer Bernard Collaery by the Australian government must be slotted alongside that of another noted Australian currently being held in the maximum-security facility of Belmarsh. In addition the lawyer has received complete support from his family.

In June 2018 the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions charged Collaery under the Nat. Bernard Collaerys leaking charges over. There has been a bombshell development in the case of an Aussie whistleblower hit with leaking charges over a.

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