NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 123 A Crim R 176
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Potier v DPP [2001] NSWSC 514 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11078/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 20/06/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 22 June 2001
PARTIES : Malcolm Huntley Potier v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor JUDGMENT OF : O'Keefe J at 1
LOWER COURT Local Court JURISDICTION : LOWER COURT Burwood FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Magistrate M K Price JUDICIAL OFFICER :
COUNSEL : Plaintiff in person Ms H. Langley for first defendant Plaintiff in person SOLICITORS : S E O'Connor Sydney for first defendant CATCHWORDS : Criminal law - Committal proceedings - Appeal - Orders in the nature of certiorari and mandamus - Distinction between remedies - Disinclination of courts to intervene - Discretion - Evidence - Refusal by magistrate to allow cross-examination of witnesses Justices Act s 48E Supreme Court Act 1970 s 69 LEGISLATION CITED : Crown Prosecutors Act 1987 Pt 3 s 5 Crimes Act 1900 s 26 Justices Legislation Amendment (Appeals) Act 1998 Pt 5 s 104 Yates v Wilson (1989) 168 CLR 338 Sergi v The Director of Public Prosecutions (CA 40518/91, 10 September 1981, unreported) Barton v The Queen (1980) 147 CLR 75, 96 Lamb v Moss (1983) 49 ALR 533, 545 Bacon v Rose (1972) 2 NSWLR 793, 797 Caine v Glass (Number 2) (1985) 3 NSWLR 230, CA Director of Public Prosecutions v Kolalich (1990) 19 NSWLR 520, 527 (CCA) R v Leslie Robert Butler CCA, 16 August 1991, unreported Ex parte Cousens; Re Blacket (1947) 47 SR 145 CASES CITED : The King v War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal; Ex parte Bott (1933) 50 CLR 228 Ex parte Hebburn Ltd; Re Kearsley Shire Council (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 416 The King v Minister of Health (1939) 1 KB 232 Estate and Trust Agencies (1927) Ltd v Singapore Improvement Trust (1937) AC 898 at 917 The King v Connell (1944) 69 CLR 407 at 432 The King v Board of Education (1910) 2 KB 165 Saffron v The Director of Public Prosecutions (1989) 16 NSWLR 397 Barton v Berman (1980) 1 NSWLR 63 at 71 Grenvill Homes Pty Ltd v Builders Licensing Board (1981) 2 NSWLR 422 at 433 Craig v South Australia (1994-95) 184 CLR 163 DECISION : Application dismissed with costs.
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