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EVIDENCE ACT 2008 - 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 the 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.

S. 17 (Heading) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 55.1).



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