NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) v. Sinton [2000] NSWSC 473 revised - 4/12/2000 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Civil FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 10491/2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 08/05/00, 09/05/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 31 May 2000
PARTIES : Director of Public Prosecutions (Plaintiff) Malcolm Sinton (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : O'Keefe J
LOWER COURT Local Court JURISDICTION : LOWER COURT N/A FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT P. Johnson LCM JUDICIAL OFFICER :
COUNSEL : M. Marien for Plaintiff C. Porter Q.C. with R. Baker for Defendant S.E. O'Connor Solicitor for Public Prosecutions 256 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone: 9285 - 8642 SOLICITORS : Walter Madden Jenkins 5th Floor, Suite 501D 154 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Telephone: 9264 - 3711 CATCHWORDS : Criminal procedure - Back up offence - Related offence - District Court - powers and duties - Local Court - powers and duties - Meaning of "is to produce", "is to order", "is to deal with" - Effect of non-compliance with statutory requirement - Mandatory provisions - Directory provisions - Test - purpose of the legislation - Legislative scheme or regime - Permanent stay of proceedings - Maxim - quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto - Discretion - Review of exercise of discretion - principles Criminal Procedure Act, 1986, Part 10 Sections 34, 34A, 35, 36 LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Procedure Legislation (Amendment) Act,1990 Crimes Legislation Amendment Act, 1998 Schedule 1 The Constitution Act, 1902 (NSW) Clayton v. Heffron (1960) 105 CLR 214 Tasker v. Fullwood (1978) 1 NSWLR 20 Project Blue Sky Pty. Limited v. Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 Barwick v Law Society of NSW (2000) 169 ALR 236 James v. Ronald (1958) 75 WN (NSW) 473 CASES CITED : Dietrich v. The Queen (1992) 177 CLR 292 Barton v. The Queen (1980) 147 CLR 75 Director of Public Prosecutions v. Shirvanian (1998) 44 NSWLR 129 Barron v. Attorney General (NSW) (1987) 10 NSWLR 215 Jago v. District Court (NSW) (1989) 168 CLR 23 House v. The King (1936) 65 CLR 499
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