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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 16

Competence and compellability: judges and jurors

  (1)   A person who is a judge or juror in a proceeding is not competent to give evidence in that proceeding. However, a juror is competent to give evidence in the proceeding about matters affecting conduct of the proceeding.

  (2)   A person who is or was a judge in an Australian or overseas proceeding is not compellable to give evidence about that proceeding unless the court gives leave.


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