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, (iii) the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, and (b) ending, or threatening to end, a retainer.
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