EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 9 Application of common law and equity
EVIDENCE ACT 2001 - SECT 9
Application of common law and equity
(1) This Act does not affect the operation of a principle or rule of common law or equity in relation to evidence in a proceeding to which this Act applies, except so far as this Act provides otherwise expressly or by necessary intendment.(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , this Act does not affect the operation of such a principle or rule so far as it relates to any of the following:(a) the admission or use of evidence of reasons for a decision of a member of a jury, or of the deliberations of a member of a jury in relation to such a decision, in a proceeding by way of appeal from a judgment, decree, order or sentence of a court;(b) the operation of a legal or evidential presumption that is consistent with this Act;(c) a court's power to dispense with the operation of a rule of evidence or procedure in an interlocutory proceeding.