A man in jail awaiting trial on burglary charges has taken a private prosecution out against a government employee alleging they lied under oath.
Under the Crimes Act, anybody can lay a private prosecution, although they are not common.
Simon Allan Kerr, 50, has charged the employee with making a false oath and more charges may be laid.
The Solicitor-General, who is involved in Crown prosecutions, has neither a role nor authority in relation to private prosecutions, unless the power to stay a prosecution or to take over a trial on indictment is exercised.
The government employee's lawyer Peter Magee asked Judge Stan Thorburn to grant his client interim name suppression, saying publication could cause undue hardship.