Regina (C'Wealth) v Baladjam & Ors [2008] NSWSC 714

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Regina (C'Wealth) v Baladjam & Ors [2008] NSWSC 714

HEARING DATE(S) : 25/02/08, 26/02/08

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 February 2008

JURISDICTION : Criminal

JUDGMENT OF : Whealy J at 1

DECISION : 1. Summons dismissed. 2. Application for a stay of proceedings dismissed. 3. Direction to media outlets made public to those outlets only.

CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL TRIAL - Quia timet injunction to prevent a threatened contempt of court - Protection of principles of open justice - Power to prevent publication of material prejudicial to a far trial - Necessity for suppression or non-publication orders relating to details of a criminal trial in another State - Exclusion of biased jurors from jury panel - Directions to jury - Integrity of jurors in obeying directions in a criminal trial

LEGISLATION CITED : Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 Supreme Court 1986 of Victoria

ABC v Lenah Game Meats Pty Limited 208 CLR 199; 2001 HCA 63 Re Consolidated Press Ex Parte Terrill (1937) SR NSW 255 Scott v Scott (1913) AC 417 at 477-8 Russell v Russell (1976) 134 CLR 495 at 520 John Fairfax & Sons Limited Police Tribunal (1986) 5 NSWLR 465 at 476 United Telecasters Sydney v Hardy (1991) 23 NSWLR 323 at 332 CASES CITED : Waterhouse v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1986) 6 NSWLR 716 at 719-720 Herald & Weekly Times Pty Limited v A [2005] 169 A Crim R 299 Pickering v Liverpool Daily Post (1991) 2 AC 370 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v District Court of New South Wales (2004) 61 NSWLR 344 Article in 2007 ALJ 743 at 752 Re Glennon (1992) 173 CLR 592 at 603 Kanaan v R [2006] NSWCCA 109 R v Lodhi [2007] NSWCCA 360