A tribunal has suppressed documents that detail the plight of the former Treasury official behind the so-called Utegate scandal.
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Administrative Appeals Tribunal senior member Professor Robin Creyke rejected Fairfax Media's request to examine documents relating to Godwin Grech and three compensation claims he lodged with Comcare.
Fairfax reported in June that Mr Grech had settled the cases he had launched against the government's workplace insurer.
Mr Grech's two decades serving as a public servant ended in 2009, after he leaked information and forged an email accusing the government of doing favours for friends.
The false allegations sparked several investigations. Mr Grech spent more than a month in the psychiatric ward of a Canberra hospital for depression after the OzCar affair.
It is believed Mr Grech's claims involved his ill health leading up to his shock allegations.
The claims went before the tribunal but were settled out of court.
Mr Grech's lawyers opposed Fairfax's request to access the case files, such as information about how Treasury reacted to the scandal.
Professor Creyke imposed a confidentiality order over the documents, saying that Mr Grech's doctor had advised his patient's ill health would be aggravated by the disclosure.
''The tribunal was dealing with sensitive matters of a personal nature,'' Professor Creyke wrote.
''These were matters as they existed in 2013, not as they were in 2009.
''So even though there may have been disclosure of some medical information about the applicant in 2009, these have been supervened by developments in the applicant's health since that time.
''The tribunal has decided not to permit a non-party to view the documents relating to these matters held by the tribunal.''