NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 161 A Crim R 1
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Sharman v Director of Public Prosecutions [2006] NSWSC 135
HEARING DATE(S) : 23/2/06
JUDGMENT DATE : 10 March 2006
JUDGMENT OF : Bell J at 1
DECISION : 1. Declare that proceedings with respect to court attendance notice H22904640 for charge cases 087/908/65, 087/916/05 and 087/924/05 were not commenced within the period limited by s 179(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 and that the Local Court is without jurisdiction to hear them; 2. The first defendant is to pay the plaintiff's costs.
CATCHWORDS : Local Courts - commencement of summary criminal proceedings - endorsement as to service on court attendance notice
Criminal Procedure Act 1986 Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2004 LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Procedure Amendment (Justices and Local Courts) Act 2001 Justices Act 1902 Local Courts (Criminal and Applications Procedure) Rule 2003
Barnes v Edwards (1993) 31 NSWLR 714 CASES CITED : John L Proprietary Limited v Attorney-General (NSW) (1987) 163 CLR 508 Project Sky Blue v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355
Paul Frederick Sharman (Plaintiff) PARTIES : Director of Public Prosecutions (1st Defendant) The Magistrate, Goulburn Local Court (2nd Defendant)
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 12773/05
COUNSEL : Mr Craddock (Plaintiff) Mr Lakatos SC (Defendant)
Walter Madden Jenkins Solicitors (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : SC Kavanagh (1st Defendant) IV Knight (2nd Defendant)
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate