A magistrate's order prohibiting named legal practitioners from appearing in committal proceedings cannot achieve the purpose of protecting confidential information where the magistrate has no power to prevent the DPP or practitioners from continuing to act in the matter or to limit communications. The Prince Jefri Bolkiah test (no real risk of disclosure) was applied in the criminal context, and unchallenged evidence of information barriers and undertakings was sufficient to establish no real risk of disclosure. The question whether a magistrate has jurisdiction to make such an order was left open.
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