NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 168 A Crim R 423
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : R v Almirol [No 1] [2007] NSWSC 290
29/01/07 - 31/01/07 01/02/07 HEARING DATE(S) : 05/02/07 - 09/02/07 12/02/07 - 16/02/07 19/02/07 - 21/02/07
JUDGMENT DATE : 21 February 2007
JURISDICTION : Common Law Division Criminal List
JUDGMENT OF : Kirby J
DECISION : Telephone Intercept evidence allowed.
CATCHWORDS : Criminal Practice & Procedure - admissibility of Telephone Intercepts - accused overseas - police use friend to telephone - police agent - no warning - warrant granted in respect of telephone number in Australia - whether that number "likely to be used" by accused - whether evidence improperly obtained - or were "admissions" that it would be unfair to use - s90(b) Evidence Act.
LEGISLATION CITED : Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 Evidence Act 1995
R v Almirol [2006] NSWSC 898 Barbaro v DPP (1999) 49 NSWLR 68 NSW Crime Commission v Vuletic [2005] NSWSC 614 Flanagan, Howard & Grollo v Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (1996) 134 ALR 495 Van der Meer (1998) 35 A Crim R 232 Swaffield & Pavic v The Queen (1998) 192 CLR 159 CASES CITED : Collins v The Queen (1980) 31 ALR 257 R v EM [2003] NSWCCA 347 EM v Regina [2006] NSWCCA 336 R v Hebert (1990) 2 SCR 151 R v Broyles (1991) 3 SCR 595 R v Cassar (No 27) [1999] NSWSC 650 O'Neill (1995) 81 A Crim R 458
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