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A room where employment disputes usually play out will become the scene of a very different courtroom drama next week.
But what goes on inside is shrouded in secrecy and media are banned from reporting.
The review of Ahmed Zaoui's security risk certificate finally gets under way more than four years after he arrived in the country but is so secret even Mr Zaoui will not be allowed to be there at times.
The location might have been supposed to be secret as well but come Monday morning a crowd is expected outside the entrance to the Employment Court in Auckland.
Representatives from the Human Rights Foundation and Amnesty International say they are turning up to highlight the unfairness of a process that does not allow Mr Zaoui a fair trial.
They criticise the fact it has taken so long for the SIS to make its case against the Algerian refugee-cum-terror suspect and protest that even though the hearing is finally here, following delay after delay, Mr Zaoui will still not know what so-called classified evidence the SIS allegedly has on him.
Peter Hosking, executive director of the Human Rights Foundation, says the case has taken so long to get to court that the three-year term of the second Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to be involved (Justice Paul Neazor) is nearly up.
"You sort of get the impression that that's the only reason it's been brought to a head now, that the Inspector-General's term of office is up so they've got to get it finished.
"And whichever way it goes he's never going to know what the SIS says about him and nothing can be done about that. How can he defend himself? It's a fundamental principle of natural justice that he should be entitled to know what it is that he is accused of."
Margaret Taylor from Amnesty International in Auckland says New Zealand's reputation as a country which supports human rights is at risk because the process is not transparent and does not meet even the most basic tenets of a fair trial.
