Western Australian Current Acts

JURIES ACT 1957 - SECT 56E

56E .         Lawful disclosure of protected information

                Sections 56B, 56C and 56D do not prohibit a person —

            (a)         during the course of a trial, disclosing, soliciting or obtaining, or publishing, with the leave of the court or otherwise with lawful excuse, information that identifies, or is likely to identify, the person or another person as, or as having been, a juror in the trial; or

            (b)         after the trial has been completed, disclosing, soliciting or obtaining, or publishing —

                  (i)         information that identifies, or is likely to identify, the person as having been a juror in the trial; or

                  (ii)         information that identifies, or is likely to identify, another person as having been a juror in the trial if the other person has consented to the publication or disclosure of that information.

        [Section 56E inserted: No. 12 of 2000 s. 10.]