CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 322
Threats or intimidation--judges and other persons connected with judicial proceedings
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 322
Threats or intimidation--judges and other persons connected with judicial proceedings
322 Threats or intimidation--judges and other persons connected with
judicial proceedings
(1) A person who, without reasonable excuse , threatens to do or cause , or does
or causes , any injury or detriment to any person -- (a) intending to influence
a person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding to
give false evidence or withhold true evidence or to not attend as a witness or
not produce anything in evidence pursuant to a summons or subpoena, or (b)
intending to influence any person (whether or not a particular person ) in the
person 's conduct as a juror in any judicial proceeding or to not attend as a
juror in any judicial proceeding , whether he or she has been sworn as a juror
or not, or (c) intending to influence any person in the person 's conduct as a
judicial officer , or (d) intending to influence any person in the person 's
conduct as a public justice official in or in connection with any
judicial proceeding , or (e) intending to influence a person in the person 's
conduct as an Australian legal practitioner acting-- (i) for a defendant in a
criminal matter, or (ii) in connection with criminal proceedings, is liable
to imprisonment for 10 years. (2) In this section--
"reasonable excuse" includes-- (a) making, or threatening to make, a complaint
about a person to a person or body acting in an official capacity, including
the following-- (i) a professional body, (ii) the Judicial Commission of New
South Wales, (iii) the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, and (b) ending, or
threatening to end, a retainer.
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