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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Visiting

74: Legal adviser may visit prisoner

You could also call this:

"Your lawyer can visit you in prison to talk about your legal issues privately"

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If you are a prisoner, your legal adviser can visit you at a time that you and the prison manager agree on, as long as they want to talk to you about your legal affairs. The prison manager has to say yes to a time for the visit, but if they do not like the time you choose, they have to suggest another time that is fair. When your legal adviser visits you, they can talk to you without anyone else listening, and if the prison manager agrees, they can also talk to you without anyone else watching.

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Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of prisons: Visiting

74Legal adviser may visit prisoner

  1. The legal adviser of a prisoner may visit the prisoner at any time agreed to by the prison manager if the purpose of the visit is to discuss the prisoner's legal affairs.

  2. If the manager does not agree to a particular time for a visit by a legal adviser, the manager must nominate an alternative time that is reasonable in the circumstances.

  3. An interview between a legal adviser, and a prisoner—

  4. must be held out of the hearing of any other person; and
    1. may, with the agreement of the prison manager, be held out of the sight of any other person.

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      • SR 2000/81 r 85