Taylor v Environment Protection Authority [2000] NSWCCA 71

Reported Decision : 50 NSWLR 48 113 LGERA 116

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : Taylor v Environment Protection Authority [2000] NSWCCA 71 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60060/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 6 September 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 25 August 2000

PARTIES : Rodney Scott Taylor v Environment Protection Authority JUDGMENT OF : Meagher JA at 1; James J at 49; Sperling J at 2

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Land & Environment Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 50093/98; 50094/98; 50095/98 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Lloyd J OFFICER :

V M Heath (Appellant) COUNSEL : D A Buchanan SC (Respondent) Sheridan & Stubbs (For Appellant) SOLICITORS : S Garrett (For Respondent) CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE - what constitutes an "information" - whether s 33(1) of the Pesticides Act 1978 requires proceedings to be commenced by information - whether a summons issued under Pt 75 r 7 of the NSW Land and Environment Court rules is an information - requirements for validity of an information - scope and application of a Lord Jervis provision curing defects in an information. LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Appeal Act 1912; Pesticides Act 1978; Pesticides and Allied Chemicals (Amendment) Act 1987; Pesticides Act 1978; Land & Environment Court Act 1979; Justices Act 1902 CASES CITED: Cassell (Unreported, NSWCCA, 6 November 1996 ); Fraser v The Queen (No 2) (1985) 1 NSWLR 681; Hanley v Steel (1973) 5 SASR 242; The Queen v Hull (1989) 16 NSWLR 385; John L Pty Ltd v Attorney General (NSW) (1987) 163 CLR 508; Stanton v Abernathy (1990) 19 NSWLR 656; The Queen v Slater [1881] 8 QBD 267; The Queen v Woolcott Forbes (1944) 44 SR (NSW) 333; Smith v Moody [1903] 1 KB 56; Johnson v Miller (1937) 59 CLR 467; De Romanis v Sibraa (1977) 2 NSWLR 264; Davies v Ryan (1933) 50 CLR 379; Ex parte Lovell; Re Buckley (1938) 38 SR (NSW) 153; Ex parte Price (1899) 20 LR (NSW) 343; Ex parte Bartlett (1896) 17 LR (NSW) 108; Ex parte Thomas; Re Otzen (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 261; Ex parte Burnett ; Re Wicks [1968] 2 NSWLR 11; Boral Gas (NSW) Pty Ltd v Magill (1993) 32 NSWLR 501; The Queen v Duff (1924) 41 WN (NSW) 23; Environment Protection Authority v Leaghur Holdings Pty Ltd (1995) 80 ACrimR 553; Environment Protection Authority v Cooke (Unreported, NSWCCA, 14 March 1996); The Queen v Madden (1995) ACrimR 367; The Queen v Wood (Unreported, NSWCCA, 8 June 1990); The Queen v Clyne (1980) 1 NSWLR 599; The Queen v Proust (1989) 17 NSWLR 267; The Queen v Clifford (1980) 1 NSWLR 314; NSW Grains Board v Davis (Unreported NSWCCA 17 July 1997); The Queen v Vatner (1992) 29 NSWLR 311. DECISION : Questions in stated case answered.