FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23HC Protecting witnesses etc.

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23HC

  (1)   The Court may make such orders as it thinks appropriate in the circumstances to protect:

  (a)   witnesses called or proposed to be called; or

  (b)   information, documents and other things admitted or proposed to be admitted;

in indictable primary proceedings.

Note:   Part   VAA deals with suppression and non - publication orders.

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the Court may do either or both of the following under that subsection:

  (a)   order the exclusion of the public, or of persons specified by the Court, from a sitting of the Court;

  (b)   direct how a witness may give evidence.