MR PATEL
As it pleases you Mr Chairman.  I think at the end of the day what it boils down to is a weighing up of rights and interests.  There can be no right or interest greater than preservation of life and safety, in my submission.
	The Act doesn't talk as Mr Hattingh says, of a real likelihood but merely of a likelihood that harm may ensue.  The Act doesn't say that it must be a witness as suggested by Mr Prinsloo, it relates to any person in ...[intervention]