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Peak legal bodies criticise the Foreign Evidence Amendment Bill

Thu Feb 19 2009

The NSW Council for Civil Liberties and the Law Council of Australia are opposed to some provisions of the Foreign Evidence Amendment Bill 2008, which was introduced into the Federal Parliament in December.

Mr Stephen Blanks, secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties described the bill as "inconsistent with due process and a major infringement on civil liberties".

“The changes mean the accused will have to prove a foreign business document is not reliable, otherwise it will automatically go into evidence,” Mr Blanks said.

View the council's media release >

19 February 2009

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