Accused murderer Simon Gittany has been slapped with tougher bail conditions as his trial over the balcony death of his fiancee goes into its fourth week.
In the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, the Crown again tried to have Gittany's bail revoked, given he is facing murder charges over the death of Lisa Cecilia Harnum who he allegedly threw off a 15th floor balcony in 2011.
Justice Lucy McCallum didn't revoke bail but enforced extra conditions.
Gittany must travel directly from the court back home, and will be only permitted to leave the premises to go to his counsel's chambers on Sunday afternoon.
He must take twice-daily phone calls from police and inform them of the precise hours he plans to meet his defence team.
After the meeting, he must return directly home and only leave to return to court on Monday.
Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC had first pressed for bail to be revoked on Thursday afternoon.
Trying again on Friday, Mr Tedeschi said the exceptional circumstances under which Gittany's bail had originally been granted no longer existed.
But defence barrister Philip Strickland SC said the Crown's applications were premature and Gittany was still needed to help them prepare their case.
Mr Tedeschi said Gittany should be taken into custody given he was approached by a Today Tonight reporter on his way to court on Friday morning - actions Justice McCallum described as "appalling" before summoning the program's producer to appear in court.
Justice McCallum said she had been told the program was planning to air an episode on the trial containing "explosive new evidence".
She banned the program from broadcasting any information not tendered in court after a Seven Network legal representative appeared on behalf of the show's producer.
"An approach to (Gittany) by a journalist with microphones and cameras is conduct which in my view is capable of being contended to amount to an interference with the administration of justice," she said.
Footage of his entrance to the Supreme Court on Friday also could not be used in a program, she said.
Gittany is accused of murdering Ms Harnum, 30, who plunged to her death from the balcony of the luxury inner-city apartment they shared off Hyde Park.
He has pleaded not guilty, saying Ms Harnum "disappeared" from the 15th floor awning after failing to reveal a shameful secret to him.
The trial continues.
