Blue Mountians City Council v Koprivnjak [2003] NSWLEC 158

> Reported Decision : (2003) 127 LGERA 188

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Blue Mountians City Council v Koprivnjak [2003] NSWLEC 158 PROSECUTOR Blue Mountains City Council PARTIES : DEFENDANT John Ivica Koprivnjak FILE NUMBER(S) : 50071 of 2002 CORAM: Cowdroy J KEY ISSUES: Practice and Procedure :- criminal proceedings - inherent jurisdiction - abuse of process - successive prosecutions - different offences but same evidence - general rule that prosecutor should join offences arising from same facts in one indictment Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 1991 Criminal Procedure Act 1986, s 28, s 29 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, s 76A, s 76B, s 125 LEGISLATION CITED: Indictments Act 1915, Sch 1 r 3 (UK) Land and Environment Court Act 1979 Land and Environment Court Rules 1996, Pt 6 r 2 Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, s 144 Supreme Court Rules 1970, Pt 75 r 6, Pt 20 Carmody v Brancourts Nominees Pty Limited and Another (2002) 124 LGERA 136; Connelly v Director of Public Prosecutions [1964] AC 1254; Jago v The District Court of New South Wales and Others (1989) 168 CLR 23; CASES CITED: Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610; Regina v Beedie [1997] 3 WLR 758; Rogers v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 251; Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378; Williams and Others v Spautz (1992) 174 CLR 509 DATES OF HEARING: 25/06/2003 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 07/18/2003