Naylor Jono: Evidence Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: Evidence Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 09 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11873. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): Can I just say what a pleasure it is to see a bill of this nature getting such widespread support from around the House. I think issues like these really are beyond party politics; they are about having a good and decent society they are about ensuring we have a fair and equitable justice system and those things go beyond party politics.For any judicial system to work well to me it needs to have three factors really: it needs to be just it needs to be timely and it must not revictimise victims—or I guess alleged victims—who have experienced particularly traumatic events. This bill I think goes a long way particularly in respect of the second and third parts of it. I think we already have a pretty just system but the bill helps to make things more timely in the way they are resolved through the court system and also and most importantly it ensures victims of particularly heinous crimes are not revictimised. This is a part of this Government’s work across a number of other pieces of legislation whether it be through the offender levy or through the victims’ rights amendment legislation that we have seen going through earlier as part of our efforts to ensure we are making a better justice system and I commend the work Amy Adams is doing with regard to this.I want to focus in particular my contribution around the presumption of children and young people being able to give video evidence. That has always been something that has been available as an option but I think what is particularly important in this legislation is the presumption that that will occur. I think that is critically important as David Shearer has just outlined and will encourage I believe more victims to come forward because they will be able to know up front that there is this presumption they will be able to deliver their evidence on video and not have to do it within the court setting or otherwise. It also enables them to have a support person with them while they are presenting their evidence.I think that is really really critical. We have got to make sure we really look after victims across all types of crime but in particular in these types of circumstances that we have been discussing this afternoon it is critically important that children and young people who have suffered really quite horrendous and devastating things are able to be supported and are able to be protected through this presumption that they will have video-record evidence.I think there is something else that is critical which came through when we were talking about this at the Justice and Electoral Committee. In particular I want to just acknowledge clause 30 of the bill where it talks about how “a party or their lawyer is not entitled to be given a copy …”. I think that is one of the things we have got to make sure of—that victims can have confidence that this video evidence they have given is not going to be passed around that it is not going to be open and available either to the person who has perpetrated the crime or otherwise or other people. People are going to be disclosing in this type of evidence very personal very traumatic events and it is critical they have confidence in a system that ensures that video evidence is protected. So there are provisions within this bill to ensure that occurs.Going through the select committee process we received a wide range of submissions and I think they have helped us to make a few minor amendments that will I believe strengthen the bill. It is a good bill. It will help us to ensure we have a good justice system going forward. It improves on what we have already got going on and as I have said a couple of times already it will ensure we are doing the utmost that we can to protect victims. I commend it to the House.