H423 IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER NIST DIRECTED TO THE GOVERNOR : | FOR_A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS ) OF HER MAJESTY'S METROPOLITAN RECEPTION PRISON, PENTRIDGE IN THE STATE OF VICTORIA; EX PARTE MARK ALFRED CLARKSON ORDER Application dismissed for want of jurisdiction. IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER NIST FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DIRECTED TO THE GOVERNOR OF HER MAJESTY'S METROPOLITAN RECEPTION PRISON, PENTRIDGF IN _THE STATE OF VICTORIA; EX PARTE MARK ALFRED CLARKSON JUDGMENT GIBRS C.J. (oral) IN THE "ER OF AN APPLICATION FOR AN ORDER NIST FOR_A_ WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DIRECTED TO THE GOVERNOR OF HER MAJESTY'S METROPOLITAN RECEPTION PRISON, PENTRIDGE IN THE STATE OF VICTORIA; EX PARTE MARK ALFRED CLARKSON Before the Court is an application by one Mark Alfred Clarkson, who is at present a prisoner in Pentridge prison, for a writ of habeas corpus. No one has appeared to support the application and, since it has not been served, no one has appeared to oppose it. It appears from a-lengthy affidavit filed by the applicant that a variety of charges have been laid against him and are pending. On 27 November 1984 O'Bryan J. in the Supreme Court of Victoria made an order granting him bail on condition that he support his recognizance with one surety in the sum of $100,000 or two of $50,000 each, and on 1 February 1985 an application to reduce the amount of bail was refused by Starke J. The applicant claims that the hail is excessive and asserts on a number of grounds that he is unlawfully held in custody. This Court has no jurisdiction to entertain the application. The applicant invokes the original jurisdiction of the Court. That jurisdiction is principallv defined in s.75 of the Constitution and s.30 of the Judiciary Act, but neither of those provisions, nor any other Commonwealth Act that I have seen, extends the original jurisdiction of the Court to an application such as the present. The application is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. iN - HIGH COURT OF AUSTRA_A IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR AW ORDE: NISI. FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DIRECTED T THE GOVERNOR OF HER MAJESTY'S METROPOLITAN RECEPTION PRISON, PENTRIDGE IN THE STAT= OF VICTORIA; EX PARTE: MARK ALFRED CLARKSON REASONS FOR JUDGMENT Judgment delivered at .... CANRERRB...... 6th March 1985 (Oral) on RM74/30574