New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 322

322 Threats or intimidation--judges and other persons connected with judicial proceedings

(1) A person who, without reasonable excuse, threatens to do or cause, or does or causes, any injury or detriment to any person--

(a) intending to influence a person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding to give false evidence or withhold true evidence or to not attend as a witness or not produce anything in evidence pursuant to a summons or subpoena, or

(b) intending to influence any person (whether or not a particular person) in the person's conduct as a juror in any judicial proceeding or to not attend as a juror in any judicial proceeding, whether he or she has been sworn as a juror or not, or

(c) intending to influence any person in the person's conduct as a judicial officer, or

(d) intending to influence any person in the person's conduct as a public justice official in or in connection with any judicial proceeding, or

(e) intending to influence a person in the person's conduct as an Australian legal practitioner acting--

(i) for a defendant in a criminal matter, or

(ii) in connection with criminal proceedings,

is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.

(2) In this section--

"reasonable excuse" includes--

(a) making, or threatening to make, a complaint about a person to a person or body acting in an official capacity, including the following--

(i) a professional body,

(ii) the Judicial Commission of New South Wales,

(iii) the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, and

(b) ending, or threatening to end, a retainer.