PART 29MEASURES TO ASSIST A WITNESS OR DEFENDANT TO GIVE EVIDENCE

SECTION 2: GENERAL RULES

Decisions and reasons29.4

1

A party who wants to introduce the evidence of a witness who is the subject of an application, direction or order must—

a

inform the witness of the court’s decision as soon as reasonably practicable; and

b

explain to the witness the arrangements that as a result will be made for him or her to give evidence.

2

The court must announce, at a hearing in public before the witness gives evidence, the reasons for a decision—

a

to give, make, vary or discharge a direction or order; or

b

to refuse to do so.

[Note. See sections 20(5), 33A(8) and 33BB(4) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.]