Timor-Leste: ICJ Confirms Aust to Return Timor Docs

May 7, 2015 | Julian Drape, AAP
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The United Nation's top court has confirmed it's authorised Australia to return documents seized from a lawyer representing East Timor in a dispute over a controversial oil and gas treaty between the two countries. Dili took Canberra to the International Court of Justice in The Hague seeking the return of sensitive documents seized by ASIO during a December 2013 raid on lawyer Bernard Collaery's Canberra office. In late March 2015 Australia indicated it wished to return the documents.