Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Magistrates' Court may direct the parties to a committal proceeding to appear at a committal case conference to be conducted by a magistrate.
(2) Wherever practicable, a committal case conference should be conducted on the date of the committal mention hearing.
S. 127(3) amended by No. 22/2020 s. 14.
(3) Evidence of—
(a) anything said or done in the course of a committal case conference; or
(b) any document prepared solely for the purposes of a committal case conference—
is not admissible in any proceeding before any court or tribunal or in any inquiry in which evidence is or may be given before any court or person acting judicially,
unless—
S. 127(3)(c) inserted by No. 22/2020 s. 14.
(c) all parties to the committal case conference agree to the giving of the evidence; or
S. 127(3)(d) inserted by No. 22/2020 s. 14.
(d) the proceeding is a criminal
proceeding for an offence alleged to have been committed during, or in
connection with, the committal case conference.
Part 4.7—Committal hearing