Australian lawyer Bernard Collaery was woken in the winter darkness of The Hague with news his home office in Canberra was being raided.
It was December 2013 and the former ACT Attorney General was in the Netherlands, acting for East Timor as it sought to invalidate a maritime treaty with Australia, which determined the split of oil and gas revenue between the two nations.
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Lisa Murray is Enterprise Journalism Editor and host of The Fin podcast. Connect with Lisa on Twitter. Email Lisa at lmurray@afr.com
Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com
