Nine spokeswoman Miranda Ward said the company had received a letter accusing it of breaching the suppression order. The ABC declined to provide details of the content of the letter, except to say it was related to ABC's coverage of the Pell trial. Boland said he had never heard of a charge of aiding and abetting being used to enforce a suppression order. Authorities' responses to breaches of the suppression order - like the order itself - had been banned from publication until the order was lifted on Tuesday. The latter charges were dropped on Tuesday, so the suppression order was lifted.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 01, 2019 00:22 UTC