Former public trustee Peter Carne won an appeal in the Supreme Court this month,a decision that stopped the Crime and Corruption Commission report from being tabled in parliament.
Former deputy premier Jackie Trad had launched similar legal action.
CCC chair Bruce Barbour said the decision set a worrying precedent for transparency,so an appeal must be lodged in the High Court.
“If the current decision were to stand,then there would definitely be concern ... of what we would be able to do in the future in terms of being open and transparent about our investigations and what we conclude in relation to the investigations,” he told a parliamentary committee on Friday.
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Carne was suspended in June 2019 when the CCC launched an investigation into allegations levelled against him. He later resigned.
The CCC forwarded its report to the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee,asking them to give it to the Speaker.
That would have allowed the report to be published and allegations protected by parliamentary privilege,preventing Carne taking any defamation action.