Miller v Sweeney [2000] NSWSC 585

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Miller v Sweeney [2000] NSWSC 585 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11586/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 11 & 12 November 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 30 June 2000

Keiran James Miller (Plaintiff) PARTIES : Deborah Sweeney (First Defendant - Submitting) Peter John Ziems (Second Defendant) Suzanne Denise Ziems (Third Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Dunford J

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COUNSEL : P Hastings QC / I Bourke (Plaintiff) MJ Finnane QC / ET Finnane (2nd & 3rd Defendants) SOLICITORS : Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (Plaintiff) Garrett Walmsley Madgwick (Second & Third Defendants) CATCHWORDS : ROYAL COMMISSION (CTH) - summonses and search warrant - whether related to Terms of Reference - SEARCH WARRANT - Royal Commission (Cth) - failure to accurately specify matters into which Commission inquiring - validity. Royal Commission Act 1902 (Cth), ss 6H & 6K LEGISLATION CITED : Royal Commission (Police Service) Act 1994, s 15 Evidence Act 1995, s 56(2), s 138 Murphy v The Queen (1989) 167 CLR 94 Ousley v The Queen (1997) 192 CLR 69 Ross v Costigan (1982) 41 ALR 319 Ross v Costigan (No. 2) (1982) 41 ALR 337 Lloyd v Costigan (1983) 48 ALR 241 Lloyd v Costigan (1983) (No.2) 53 ALR 402 CASES CITED : R v Tillett; ex parte Newton (1969) 14 FLR 101 Dover v Ridge (unreported - Dunford J - 3 July 1998) Tran Nominees Pty Ltd v Scheffer & ors (1986) 42 SASR 361 Australian Broadcasting Commission v Cloran (1984) 57 ALR 742 Cassaniti v Croucher [2000] NSWCA 95 Warner v Elder (unreported - Temby AJ - 23 April 1997) MacGibbon v Warner (unreported - Court of Appeal - 27 November 1997) DECISION : See paras 35 & 36.