They got the documents with a summons, this from the opening submissions paper:
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Watchtower Australia produced some 5,000 documents pursuant to summonses issued by the Royal Commission on 4 and 28 February 2015. Those documents include 1,006 case files relating to allegations of child sexual abuse made against members of the Jehovah’s Witness Church in Australia since 1950 – each file for a different alleged perpetrator of child sexual abuse
wondering of the bethelites in other countries have got the shredders out? But that would look even worse, wouldn't it?