3.01.020 Privileged Communication; Duty of Court to Advise Witness and to Protect Rights of Person Who Is Not Present or Represented

It shall be the duty of the Court, of its own motion and without waiting for objection, to advise a witness at the appropriate time of his rights to refuse to answer any question requiring disclosure of any privileged communication or requiring or tending to require the witness give testimony which might incriminate him.

In all cases where it shall appear to the Court that any person who is not present nor represented at the hearing should be protected in his right to have any privileged communication excluded, it shall be the duty of the Court to make such objections and orders for such purpose as the Court may deem necessary.