Lucy Frick v Nationwide News Pty Ltd and Anor [2001] NSWSC 320

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Lucy Frick v Nationwide News Pty Ltd and Anor [2001] NSWSC 320 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20571/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 3 April 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 11 September 2001

PARTIES : Lucy Frick - Plaintiff Nationwide News Pty Ltd and Anor - Defendants JUDGMENT OF : Simpson J

COUNSEL : Mr C Evatt with Mr G Hansen - Plaintiff Mr W H Nicholas QC with Mr A Leopold - Defendants Ward Maxwell & Co - Plaintiff SOLICITORS : Blake Dawson Waldron - First Defendant Mallesons Stephen Jaques - Second Defendant CATCHWORDS : Common law - civil contempt, disobedience and abuse of the orders of the Police Integrity Commission - abuse of the administration of justice - non-publication order - power, jurisdiction and authority to make - construction of - whether confined to circumstances in which the order would or might further the purposes or object of the Police Integrity Act or the Commission or is reasonably relevant thereto - whether the Police Integrity Commission is a court. LEGISLATION CITED : Police Integrity Commission Act 1996 John Fairfax & Sons Limited v Police Tribunal of NSW (1986) 5 NSWLR 465 CASES CITED : Killen v Lane [1983] 1 NSWLR 171 NSW Bar Association v Muirhead (1988) 14 NSWLR 173 DECISION : The statement of claim is dismissed; the plaintiff is to pay the defendants' costs of the statement of claim and the notice of motion.

THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION SIMPSON J

11 September 2001

20571/99 Lucy FRICK v NATIONWIDE NEWS PTY LIMITED & ANOR Judgment