NSW Caselaw
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session
CITATION: Inspector Wilkie v Anstee [2005] NSWIRComm 246
PROSECUTOR Inspector Robert Wilkie PARTIES: DEFENDANT Barry Francis Anstee
FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 5164, 5165 and 5166 of 2004
CORAM: Staff J
CATCHWORDS: Occupational health and safety - Prosecutions under s 10(1), s 92 and s 94 of the Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000 - Notice of motion - Strike out - Doctrine of estoppel or res judicata - Whether criminal proceedings may be discontinued by Industrial Registrar - Abuse of process - Withdrawal, discontinuance and dismissal of proceedings pursuant to Industrial Relations Commission Rules - Double jeopardy - Consideration of whether Industrial Registrar can determine withdrawal of dismissal of a criminal prosecution - Consideration of the principles of autrefois acquit - Held plea of autrefois acquit did not operate - Industrial Registrar does not have the power to dismiss criminal proceedings and therefore such dismissal could not amount to autrefois acquit - Industrial Relations Commission Rules 1996 (NSW) r 138, r 139, r 217A - 217E, r 222, r 223, r 240
Criminal Procedure Act 1986 Industrial Relations Act 1996 Occupational Health & Safety Act 2000 LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Commission Rules 1996 Industrial Relations (General) Regulation 2001 (NSW)
Broome v Chenoweth (1946) 73 CLR 583 Callahan and Another v Broomham (1996) 68 IR 66 Coombes v Patrick Stevedores (2002) 118 IR 401 Jago v District Court of New South Wales (1989) 168 CLR 23 Pearce v The Queen [1998] 194 CLR 610 R v Hoar (1981) 148 CLR 32 CASES CITED: Ridge Consolidated Pty Ltd v WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Mauger) (2000) 100 IR 156 Rogers v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 251 Subramaniam v R [2004] 211 ALR 1 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378 WorkCover Authority of NSW (Inspector Ankucic) v J L Lennard Foods Equipment Pty Ltd (No 2) (1999) 92 IR 111 WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (Inspector Lancaster) v Re-Car Consolidated Industries (Wagga) Pty Ltd (1998) 88 IR 173 WorkCover Authority v Plastachem (2001) 110 IR 351
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