October 15th Solidarity - Remember the state terror raids

Dispatches from Wellington - Fairfax contempt trial

"The Terror Files" - ten months ago the Dominion Post, Stuff and other Fairfax papers published several articles that were based on the affidavit that was used to get the search warrant for the raids on October 15th. In these articles they also published intercepted communications, in a random, cherry picked sort of a way (cherry-picking the cherry-picking - since search warrants don't generally include the perspective of people raided, or even counter-interpretations). Now, ten months later, they were being taken to court by solicitor general for contempt.

Read the reports from the hearing at the Wellington High Court

• Fairfax Contempt hearing closes (18 September 2008)

Closing arguments from the Crown and the respondents in the Fairfax contempt trial were heard in the Wellington High Court today. Read more...

• Dispatches from Wellington - Day One at the Fairfax contempt trial (16 September 2008)

By now I'm used to the rythym of court, so I knew that the first issue that was going to be addressed was media coverage and suppression orders (the reading of the charges didn't take three days this time). Read more...