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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 3 Hansard (25 March) . . Page.. 887 ..

MR STANHOPE (continuing):

deny to a person held in remand the opportunity to appear in person before a magistrate who is going to deal with the question of their continuing incarceration or their continuing liberty? It is just a nonsense.

Debate interrupted.

ADJOURNMENT

MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 5.00 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Humphries: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

EVIDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL 1999

[COGNATE BILL:

COURTS AND TRIBUNALS (AUDIO VISUAL AND AUDIO LINKING) BILL 1999]

Detail Stage

Bill as a whole

Debate resumed.

MR STANHOPE: It was on that point, Mr Rugendyke, that we actually agreed. I think I agreed with everything you said. It was on that basis that I was somewhat surprised that you came to the contrary conclusion that because, in any likelihood, not many people would choose the option of appearing in person, there was no great cost constraint involved here. Subsequently, the Attorney did raise a number of other concerns, concerns that my colleagues have noted that he did not raise in his speech when he presented the Bill. He raised concerns about - - -

Mr Humphries: This was not an issue then. I had not seen your amendments.

MR STANHOPE: It was never suggested that these amendments were intended to cover the David Eastmans of the world whom you talked about. It was never suggested in your presentation speech that your amendments were designed to prevent notorious and dangerous criminals being transported to the court. These were not issues that you raised in your presentation speech. You are now suggesting that these are the sorts of issues that you seek to prevent by opposing my amendments, that you seek to prevent so-called notorious criminals appearing in court, you seek to prevent - - -

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