Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 590AB

590AB Disclosure obligation

(1) This chapter division acknowledges that it is a fundamental obligation of the prosecution to ensure criminal proceedings are conducted fairly with the single aim of determining and establishing truth.

(2) Without limiting the scope of the obligation, in relation to disclosure in a relevant proceeding, the obligation includes an ongoing obligation for the prosecution to give an accused person full and early disclosure of—

(a) all evidence the prosecution proposes to rely on in the proceeding; and

(b) all things in the possession of the prosecution, other than things the disclosure of which would be unlawful or contrary to public interest, that would tend to help the case for the accused person.