 Guess' defense counsel could not, by order of the court, disclose the content of these hearings to any party not present at the hearings.Guess herself was not allowed at the hearings and her counsel could not relate to her what transpired at the hearings.The secret hearing, wherein the court enjoins all those present from disclosing the contents of the hearing and simultaneously refuses to offer the defendant admittance to the hearing, was unprecedented in Canadian law.