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CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE ACT 2009 - SECT 85

85—Privileges, protection and immunity of participants in proceedings

        (1)         A magistrate of a prescribed court of another participating jurisdiction

            (a)         hearing or determining in the State a cross-border proceeding of that other jurisdiction; or

            (b)         exercising in the State the cross-border jurisdiction of the court or a power of the court for the purposes of that jurisdiction,

has the same privileges, protection and immunity as a judge of the Supreme Court has in the performance of his or her duties as a judge.

        (2)         A person appearing in the State as a legal practitioner in a cross-border proceeding of a prescribed court of another participating jurisdiction has the same protection and immunity as counsel appearing in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.

        (3)         A person appearing in the State as a witness in a cross-border proceeding of a prescribed court of another participating jurisdiction has the same protection as a witness appearing in a proceeding in the Supreme Court.



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