Barbaro & Ors. v. Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor. [2000] NSWSC 474

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Barbaro & Ors. v. Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor. [2000] NSWSC 474 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Civil 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 Guiseppe Barbaro and Francesco Catanzariti (Plaintiffs) Director of Public Prosecutions and Commissioner of Police (Defendants) JUDGMENT OF : O'Keefe J

J.V. Agius S.C. and A. Martin for the Plaintiffs COUNSEL : P.I. Lakatos for the Defendants Cater & Blumer, 112-144 Yambil Street, Griffith NSW 2680 Telephone: 069 62 1755I (Plaintiffs) C. Smith, Acting Solicitor for Public Prosecutions 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)

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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 LEGISLATION 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 invaliddity of one warrant; Defendant to pay half Plaintiff's costs