Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) A pre-trial conference:
(a) is to be conducted by a criminal registrar;
(b) is to be attended by:
(i) the Director; and
(ii) the accused's legal representative or, if the accused is unrepresented, the accused; and
(c) may be conducted by teleconference or videoconference.
(2) At a pre-trial conference:
(a) for the expeditious conduct of the proceedings, the criminal registrar may enquire into a matter specified in Schedule 2;
(b) the Director and the accused person or his or her legal representative are to be prepared to answer questions and provide information to the criminal registrar on the matters specified in Schedule 2; and
(c) the Director must, subject to subrule (3):
(i) give notice of the name of each person who may be called as a witness for the prosecution at the trial and whose statement has not been provided to the accused or who was not called to give evidence at the committal hearing;
(ii) give notice of the substance of the evidence proposed to be adduced from each person referred to in subparagraph (i), either by providing a copy of a statement made by the witness or otherwise;
(iii) if the Director has not already done so – comply with sections 116(2) and 139 of the Local Court (Criminal Procedure) Act 1928 ;
(iv) provide to the criminal registrar the information the criminal registrar reasonably requires in relation to the availability of each witness for the prosecution; and
(v) notify the criminal registrar and the accused person's legal representative or, if the accused is unrepresented, the accused, of the name of a potential witness for the prosecution whose deposition the prosecution proposes to apply to tender in evidence and the grounds of the proposed application.
(3) The Director does not have to comply with subrule (2)(c)(i) or (2)(c)(v) in respect of a witness if he or she is satisfied that it is not in the interests of the witness's personal safety to comply with that subrule.
(4) Anything said at a pre-trial conference by or on behalf of the prosecution or an accused, or a failure by the prosecution or an accused or his or her legal representative to answer a question at a pre-trial conference, is not to be used in the trial or made the subject of comment at the trial.
(5) Subrule (4) does not preclude an accused from relying at the trial on an indication of an intention to plead guilty given at a pre-trial conference.