R v Bailey [2001] NSWCCA 10

Reported Decision : (2001) 336 MVR 189

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : R v Bailey [2001] NSWCCA 10 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60603/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 30 November 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 14 February 2001

PARTIES : Regina (NSW) (Respondent) Paul Wayne Bailey (Appellant/Applicant) JUDGMENT OF : Wood CJ at CL at 1; Dunford J at 2; Carruthers AJ at 54

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 98/11/0887 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Downs ADCJ OFFICER :

WG Dawe QC (Crown) COUNSEL : SJ Odgers (Applicant) (severity appeal) In person (Appellant) (conviction appeal) SOLICITORS : SE O'Connor (Crown) Murphy's Lawyers Inc (Appellant) CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW - dangerous driving causing death - summing up - need for trial judge to specify the matters relied on as constituting dangerous driving - CRIMINAL LAW - sentencing - dangerous driving causing death LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900, s 52A(1)(c) Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999, s 44(2) R v Oliva (1965) 49 Cr App R 298 Jiminez v the Queen (1992) 173 CLR 572 R v Hain (1966) 85 WN (Pt 1) (NSW) 7 Fleming v R [1998] HCA 68, 197 CLR 250 R v Giam [1999] NSWCCA 53, 104 A Crim R 416 M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487 CASES CITED: Alford v Magee (1952) 85 CLR 437 R v Zorad (1990) 19 NSWLR 91 R v Tillott (1991) 53 A Crim R 46 R v Jurisic (1998) 45 NSWLR 209 R v Howland [1999] NSWCCA 10, 104 A Crim R 273 R v Carrion [2000] NSWCCA 191, 49 NSWLR 149 R v MacIntyre (1988) 38 A Crim R 135 DECISION : Appeal against conviction dismissed. Leave to appeal against sentence granted (by majority), sentence quashed, applicant re-sentenced (see para 53).