Victoria just passed legislation in the omnibus bill last week to allow local councils to meet by electronic means. That has reduced the pressure on them to provide meeting spaces for in person attendance. They also passed judge only trials, which was not allowed in Victoria. It may just be for a certain period, though. Video evidence has been part of Victoria trials for awhile now.
Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Worthington" To:"[email protected]" Cc: Sent:Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:53:40 +1000 Subject:[LINK] NSW Allows Documents to be Witnessed by Video Conference Video conferences are now being used routinely in place of face to face meetings during the COVID-19 emergency. However, some have been reluctant to do this due to the lack of explicit law allowing it (although courts are using video conferences extensively, so would be unlikely to rule them invalid). To help clarify the issue the New South Wales Electronic Transactions Amendment (COVID-19 Witnessing of Documents) Regulation 2020, provides that witnessing of documents can be done by video link. https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/regulations/2020-169pdf -- Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP IP3P http://www.tomwnet.au +61(0)419496150 TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
