There was increasing pressure to make the Commission of Inquiry report public, amid reports it had already been leaked, said Commissioner Justice David Ashton-Lewis in an interview on The Judge, a radio program on 4CRB in Gold Coast, Australia.
“There’s a massive push for it now by members of the Opposition and everyone, that the report be made public, because at the moment, only four people – now I’m told it’s been leaked,” he said.
“And I’m sure it has, and I think I know where it’s been leaked from, so that people who are interested are trying to stop it, but they’re not going to be successful.”
He said only a handful of people currently had access to the full report.
“Ostensibly only myself, counsel assisting, the Prime Minister, the President, know what’s in the report.”
“My recommendation has been, act on the recommendations first before you release it to the public.”
“And the reason being, we receive pretty good intelligence…that those who are named in (the report) are going to seek an injunction to stop it being released.
But he questioned how such a move would hold up legally.
“Now, I don’t know how they’re going to do it, because lawyers listening to this (know) you can’t injunct the state, you can’t injunct the head of state. So… this is only going to be released on the order of the president.”
