Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 615B

615B Law and procedure to be applied

(1) In a trial by a judge sitting without a jury, the judge must apply, so far as is practicable, the same principles of law and procedure as would be applied in a trial before a jury.

(2) In a trial by a judge sitting without a jury, the judge may view a place or thing.

(3) If an Act or the common law—

(a) requires information or a warning or instruction to be given to the jury in particular circumstances; or

(b) prohibits a warning from being given to a jury in particular circumstances;

the judge in a trial by a judge sitting without a jury must take the requirement or prohibition into account if the circumstances arise in the course of the trial.