Text as at 15 April 2026
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18ZI Case conferences

(1)For the purpose of being informed from time to time about the progress being made by an offender subject to a drug and alcohol treatment order, the judicial officer constituting the Drug Court may convene a case conference.
S. 18ZI(1) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 21(1)(2).
(2)A case conference may be attended by a lawyer, a prosecutor, a health service provider, a community corrections officer or anyone else whom the judicial officer thinks should attend.
S. 18ZI(2) amended by Nos 18/2005 s. 18(Sch. 1 item 97.2), 43/2020 s. 21(2).
(3)For the purposes of section 104ZY of the Corrections Act 1986, a relevant person referred to in that section who discloses at a case conference information about an offender subject to a drug and alcohol treatment order is taken to be performing his or her official duties.
S. 18ZI(3) amended by Nos 65/2016 s. 7, 43/2020 s. 21(1).
(4)No objection can be taken to a judicial officer subsequently constituting the Drug Court in a proceeding on the ground that he or she had previously convened a case conference in relation to the proceeding.
S. 18ZI(4) amended by No. 43/2020 s. 21(2).
(5)In this section—
S. 18ZI(5) inserted by No. 43/2020 s. 21(3).
judicial officer means—
(a)for the Drug Court Division of the Magistrates' Court, a magistrate; or
(b)for the Drug Court Division of the County Court, a judicial registrar, associate judge, or judge of the County Court.