sentences:  Channel 7’s Gary Adshead and The West Australian’s Robert Taylor were summonsed to appear at a hearing of the Parliamentary Inspector of the CCC which are held in private.Short and Cooper appeared before the Commission on 26 June over “…identifying the person or persons who on or about 12 May 2006 provided information and/or assisted her (Short) in identifying the new suspect for the murder of Pamela Lawrence as being in custody for another homicide”,; Adshead and Taylor were two of 21 witnesses who appeared before the Parliamentary Inspector of the Commission, Malcolm McCusker, in late June and early July when he investigated the leaking of a Commission document to the media on former Labor MP John D'Orazio
  
  The journalists’ union, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, described the secret hearings as “insidious and sinister”.“We are bringing it to public attention because we are deeply disturbed by its impact on the practice of journalism,” Alliance WA Branch Secretary Michael Sinclair-Jones was quoted in The Australian on Thursday 8 November.