NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Markisic & Anor v Keelty [2005] NSWSC 1124
HEARING DATE(S) : 4 July 2005, 7 July 2005
JUDGMENT DATE : 8 November 2005
JUDGMENT OF : Simpson J
DECISION : Notice of motion dismissed; Plaintiff to pay the respondents' costs of the notice of motion.
CATCHWORDS : contempt - disobedience of court order - subpoena - final hearing of charge - statement of charge - whether deficient - whether necessary to allege deliberate suppression - no allegation of wilfulness - particularisation of alleged contempt - necessary to identify date of alleged contempt - insufficient particularisation - Commissioner's personal knowledge of subpoena - minimum mental element necessary to establish contempt - compliance deficient on at least two occasions - necessary to prove wilfulness in non-compliance - wilful non-compliance not proved - suspicion about degree of commitment to task of compliance insufficient to discharge criminal onus
Australasian Meat Industries Employees Union v Mudginberri Station Pty Ltd [1986] 46; 161 CLR 98 Azzopardi v The Queen [2001] HCA 25; 205 CLR 50 Bernard Putnin as Liquidator of MAFF Investments Pty Ltd (in liquidation) v Fuller (1991) 3 WAR 546 CASES CITED : Ditfort v Katz [1991] NSWCA, unreported, 8 July 1991 Dyers v The Queen [2002] HCA 45; 210 CLR 285 Hayden v Ditfort (1988) 93 FLR 131 Lane v The Registrar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Equity Division) [1981] 35; 148 CLR 245
Oliver Markisic - 1st Plaintiff PARTIES : Marika Markisic - 2nd Plaintiff Mick Keelty - Defendant
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20369/01
1st Plaintiff in person COUNSEL : David Robinson SC with T Leibman - Defendant
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