Barbaro & Ors -v- DPP & Anor [1999] NSWSC 1338

Reported Decision : [1999] 49 NSWLR 68

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : Barbaro & Ors -v- DPP & Anor [1999] NSWSC 1338 revised - 12/09/2000 CURRENT JURISDICTION : FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11323/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 24/11/99, 25/11/99, 26/11/99 JUDGMENT DATE : 26 November 1999

PARTIES : Pasquale Barbaro; Giuseppe Barbaro and Francesco Catanzariti (Plaintiffs) Director of Public Prosecutions and Commissioner of Police (Defendants) JUDGMENT OF : O'Keefe J at 1

COUNSEL : J. V. Agius S.C. and A. Martin for the Plaintiffs P.I. Lakatos for the Defendants Cater & Blumer, 112-144 Yambil Street, Griffith NSW 2680 Telephone: 069 621 7551 (Plaintiffs) C. Smith, Acting Solicitor for Public Prosecutions SOLICITORS : 265 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone: 9285-8643 (First Defendant) I.V. Knight Crown Solicitor Level 5, 60-70 Elizabeth Street Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone: 9224 5164 (Second Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Criminal Law ; Evidence; Listening Devices; Warrants; Contents of warrant; Meaning of "shall specify", "use", "premises on which", "place at which"; Period of warrant; Validity of listening device warrants ACTS CITED : Listening Devices Act, 1984 S.5, Part 4, S.16 (1), (4), (6A), S.16(4), Schedule 2 Ousley v The Queen (1997) 192 CLR 69 CASES CITED : Inland Revenue Commissioners v Rossminster Limited (1980) AC 952 Haynes v Attorney General (NSW) Supreme Court of NSW, 9 February, 1996, James J unreported DECISION : Declaration as to invalidity of one warrant;; Defendant to pay half Plaintiff's costs