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A Perth judge has ordered that a Muslim woman must remove a full burqa while giving evidence before a jury in a fraud case.
Judge Shauna Deane today ruled that the witness must remove her niqab, or burqa face covering when she gives evidence to the jury.
The judge said she did not consider it appropriate that the witness give evidence with her face covered.
However she stressed she was not making a decision which was making a legal precedent, it was simply her ruling in these circumstances.