DPP v Heagney & Anor [1999] NSWSC 303

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : DPP v Heagney & Anor [1999] NSWSC 303 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : 10203/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 29 March 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 8 April 1999

Director of Public Prosecutions (Plaintiff) PARTIES : John Edward Heagney (First Defendant) Danny John Reynolds (Second Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Studdert J

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Local Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER : Mr J.E. Heagney

G. Hosking SC (Plaintiff) COUNSEL : Submitting appearance (1st Defendant) G.D. Wendler (2nd Defendant) S.E. O'Connor (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : I.V. Knight (1st Defendant) In person (2nd Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Criminal law; convictions in Local Court following pleas of guilty; subsequent informations in respect of further offences in Local Court; whether autrefois convict available; alternatively, whether abuse of process by reason of proceedings on subsequent informations; whether error of law by magistrate in ordering permanent stay of proceedings on subsequent informations. Crimes Act ACTS CITED : Traffic Act Justices Act The Queen v Storey (1978) 140 CLR 364 DPP v Humphrys [1977] AC 1 Rogers v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 251 Spencer Bower Turner and Handley on Res Judicata, 3rd ed. Pearce v R (1998) 156 ALR 684 The Queen v Riley [1896] 1 KB 309 CASES CITED : Reg v O'Neill (1979) 2 NSWLR 502 Smiles v Commissioner of Taxation (1992) 37 FCR 538 DPP v Shirvanian (1998) 44 NSWLR 129 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378 R v Dodd (1991) 56 A Crim R 451 Waterhouse v Gilmore (1988) 12 NSWLR 270 Nicholas v The Queen (1998) 72 ALJR 456 DECISION : See para 48