A Wellington public servant has admitted photocopying highly sensitive Cabinet committee documents on the restructuring at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but has denied leaking them.
The public servant, whose details including gender have been suppressed by the High Court, is named in a report by investigator Paula Rebstock as the person suspected of leaking the documents that ended up in the Labour Party's hands last year.
Ms Rebstock's suspect wants the High Court to stop her final report from being presented to State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie, who commissioned the report almost a year ago.
Justice Robert Dobson heard the application on Monday in the High Court at Wellington in a case described as "Applicant A" vs Attorney General.
Jason McHerron, the lawyer representing the public servant, said there was no evidence that the documents had been distributed after they were scanned and photocopied. He said the allegation that his client had been the leaker should not be repeated in a final report.
