Lawyers excused from court tech ban
Monday 25 February 2013 @ 8.53 a.m. | Legal Research
An article reported in lawyersweekly.com.au, says that lawyers in NSW will be able to continue to use mobile technology in courtrooms to do their jobs, NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith has said.
The NSW Government introduced legislation in November to ban the transmitting of information
from courtrooms after an incident that endangered the integrity of the court process.
Peak bodies including the NSW Law Society and Bar Association are being consulted
on the proposed regulation, which will exempt lawyers and journalists, for the purposes
of media reports on court proceedings, from the restrictions in the legislation.
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