Black v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2003] NSWSC 442

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Black v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2003] NSWSC 442 HEARING DATE(S) : Monday 12 May 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 27 May 2003 JURISDICTION: Common Law JUDGMENT OF : Michael Grove J at 1 DECISION : Order that the matter be remitted to the Local Court to reconsider in accordance with these reasons whether a direction be given for Detective Hutcheson to attend for cross examination. Save that order, summons is otherwise dismissed and the stay of proceedings ordered on 7 April 2003 is discharged.

CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - LOCAL COURT - COMMITTAL HEARING - DIRECTION FOR WITNESSES TO ATTEND FOR CROSS EXAMINATION IN PART REFUSED - TEST TO BE APPLIED - EXERCISE OF MAGISTRATE'S JURISDICTION Justices Act 1902 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Act Trade Practices Act 1974 (Commonwealth) Ex parte Hebburn Ltd; Re Kearsley Shire Council (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 416 Goldsmith v Newman (1992) 59 SASR 404 Hanna v Kearney [1998] NSWSC 227 J.W. v Director of Public Prosecutions [1999] NSWSC 1244 McKirdy v McCosker 2002 127 A Crim R 217 CASES CITED : O'Brien Glass v Cool & Sons 1983 77 FLR 441 R v Kennedy 1997 94 A Crim R 341 R v Losurdo 1998 101 A Crim R 162 Saffron v DPP: (NSW) (1989) 16 NSWLR 397 Tillmann's Butcheries v A.M.I.E.U. 1979 42 FLR 331 Wade v Burns 1966 115 CLR 537 PARTIES : Lachlan William Black v Director of Public Prosecutions and Her Worship, Magistrate Sylvia Emmett FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 10827/03 COUNSEL : J. Stratton (Plaintiff) R. Hulme SC (Defendants) SOLICITORS : D. Humphreys (Plaintiff) I.V. Knight (Defendants)