Legal effect of private sessions
29 Legal effect of private sessions
The following are not admissible in evidence against a person in any civil or criminal proceedings, other than proceedings for an offence against section 30, in any court:a statement or disclosure made by the person – at a private session; or to the Commissioner solely for the purposes of a private session or proposed private session; the production of a document or other thing by the person at a private session.
A person who appears, or is authorised to be, at a private session has the same protection and immunity, and is subject to the same liabilities in respect of any civil or criminal proceedings, as a witness has in a case tried in the Supreme Court.
Counsel who appears on behalf of another person at a private session or is engaged to help the Commissioner conduct a private session has the same protection and immunity as counsel appearing for a party in proceedings in the Supreme Court.
The Commissioner has, in conducting a private session, the same protection and immunity as a judge of the Supreme Court.
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