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Justices Act 1886
sec.178FFacilities for private communication
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### sec.178F Facilities for private communication
The primary court and the associated place must make facilities available for private communication between the facility user and the facility user’s representative in a proceeding if the facility user’s representative is at the place where the primary court is sitting.
A communication between the facility user and the facility user’s representative is as confidential and as inadmissible in any proceeding as it would be if it took place between the facility user and the facility user’s representative while in each other’s presence.
Subsection (2) does not limit any other protection applying to the communication.
s 178F ins 1996 No. 4 s 10
sub 2005 No. 70 s 112
(sec.178F-ssec.1) The primary court and the associated place must make facilities available for private communication between the facility user and the facility user’s representative in a proceeding if the facility user’s representative is at the place where the primary court is sitting.
(sec.178F-ssec.2) A communication between the facility user and the facility user’s representative is as confidential and as inadmissible in any proceeding as it would be if it took place between the facility user and the facility user’s representative while in each other’s presence.
(sec.178F-ssec.3) Subsection (2) does not limit any other protection applying to the communication.