DPP v FARR [2001] NSWSC 3

Reported Decision : (2001) 118 A Crim R 399

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : DPP v FARR [2001] NSWSC 3 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC S11403/2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 28 August 2000 and 1 September 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 January 2001

PARTIES : Director of Public Prosecutions -v- Karen Gail Farr JUDGMENT OF : Smart AJ at 1

LOWER COURT Local Court JURISDICTION : LOWER COURT Charge No H5703205 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT R Prowse JUDICIAL OFFICER :

COUNSEL : RD Cogswell SC for the Appellant P O'Connor for the Respondent SOLICITORS : SE O'Connor for the Appellant Abbott, Pardy, and Jenkins for the Respondent CATCHWORDS : Criminal Law - Admissions - s424A of Crimes Act - illegal search - rejection of evidence due to impropriety - s138 of the Evidence Act 1995 Crimes Act 1900 Criminal Procedure Act 1986 LEGISLATION CITED : Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 Evidence Act 1995 Traffic Act 1909 R v Horton (1998) 45 NSWLR 426 R v Reed (1999) NSWCCA 258 R v Coulstock (1998) 99 A Crim R 143 CASES CITED : R v Nabalarua CCA, unrep 19 Dec 1997 McPherson (1981) 147 CLR 512 Van der Meer (1987) 35 A Crim R 232 Pollard v The Queen (1993) 67 ALJR 193 Bunning v Cross (1978) 141 CLR 54 DECISION : Order that the order of the magistrate dismissing the informations laid against Karen Gail Farr for the offences of goods in custody, cultivate prohibited plant, supply prohibited drug and possess probihited drug be removed into this Court and quashed and that the matters be remitted to the magistrate to be further heard in accordance with the reasons of this Court and according to law.