Pires v VCFC [2002] NSWDC 14

New South Wales District Court

CITATION : Pires v VCFC [2002] NSWDC 14 TRIBUNAL : Victims Compensation Tribunal PARTIES : Vanessa Pires Victims Compensation Fund Corporation FILE NUMBER(S) : 7003; 7004 of 2002 CORAM: CATCHWORDS: assisting police - procedural fairness - s30(1) LEGISLATION CITED: Victims Support and Rehabilitation Act 1996 CASES CITED: DATES OF HEARING: 18 November 2002 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 18 November 2002

JUDGMENT:

HIS HONOUR JUDGE NICHOLSON S.C.: 1. The Applicant seeks by Notice of Motion that she be granted an extension of time to file an application for leave to appeal in relation to a Victims' Compensation Tribunal Assessor's decision dated 17 May 2002 in relation to the appeal of Vanessa Pires and the original decision of Victims' Compensation Tribunal dated 30 August 2002.

2. She also seeks an order that leave be granted to pursue an appeal pursuant to section 39 of the Victims' Compensation Act 1996 against a determination made by the Victims' Compensation Tribunal assessor on 17 May to it and seeks an order that the respondent pay the appellant's costs and such other orders as the court thinks fit.

3. The appeal that she seeks to launch in the matter of Pires v The Victims' Compensation Tribunal puts forward three grounds: · The Appellant was denied procedural fairness in the hearing of the primary application by the Victims' Compensation Tribunal; · That the appellant was denied procedural fairness in the hearing of the appeal application by the Victims' PVTCO:CAT:2 · Compensation Tribunal; · That the appellant was denied natural justice in the PVTCO:CAT:2 18 .18/11/02 hearing of the primary and appeal applications by the Victims' Compensation Tribunal and · such other grounds as the Court in its discretion may allow.