Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If a judge of a
court in which a trial is to be held or is being held considers that it is
necessary to protect the security of persons summoned or sworn as a juror or
appointed under section 52(1), the judge may at a pre-trial hearing or at the
trial, by order, do any one or more of the following —
(a)
prohibit, restrict or impose conditions on the inspection by the parties to a
criminal trial or their respective solicitors of the copy of a panel or pool
of jurors that would otherwise be allowed under section 30;
(b)
prohibit, restrict or impose conditions on the provision to the parties to a
criminal trial or their respective solicitors of a copy of a panel or pool of
jurors;
(c)
direct the summoning officer to delete the names of persons and details of
their address, other than the suburb or town, on any copy of the panel or pool
before an inspection of the copy is allowed under section 30;
(d)
direct that the summoning officer should keep a copy of the panel or pool of
jurors in his or her office under section 30 for a specified period less than
the 4 clear days prescribed in that section;
(e) if
an order is made under paragraph (a) prohibiting the inspection of a copy of a
panel or pool of jurors under section 30, direct that the parties to a trial
or their respective solicitors may for the purpose of selecting the jury have
access to a copy of the panel or the list referred to in section 32H(2) in
open court for a period commencing immediately before the procedure described
in section 36(1) begins and ending when the jurors have been sworn;
(f) give
such other directions as the court considers necessary.
(2) If an order is
made under subsection (1) that is directed to or affects the summoning officer
in the exercise of his or her duties as a summoning officer, the court shall
give a copy of the order to the summoning officer.
[Section 43A inserted: No. 25 of 2003 s. 20.]