John Ibrahim banned from viewing guns restriction documents
Police won’t have to show John Ibrahim the secret intelligence they used to justify slapping a firearms prevention order on the Kings Cross identity, a tribunal ruled this week.
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Police won’t have to show John Ibrahim the secret intelligence they used to justify slapping a firearms prevention order on the Kings Cross identity, a tribunal ruled this week.
Ibrahim has taken legal action to challenge the guns restriction police took out on him after the raid on his Dover Heights mansion last year. Police seized $65,000 cash during the search, which uncovered no guns.
Ibrahim has now challenged the order, which prevents him using or possessing firearms, in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
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When such a challenge is made, it triggers a section of the law that says the police must produce “a copy of every document” that is “relevant to the determination of the application by the tribunal”.
But, in a hearing that went ahead without Ibrahim or his lawyers, the police asked the tribunal to order it receive the documents in a private hearing, from which Ibrahim and his lawyers would again be excluded.
Police also asked the documents not be disclosed to Ibrahim or his legal team.
Deputy President Nancy Hennessy ruled police were “not required to lodge copies of the documents specified in the confidential affidavit filed in support of this application”.
“I have decided to make the order sought by the Commissioner of Police,” she told the hearing.
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