Regina (C'Wealth) v Elomar & Ors [No 1] [2008] NSWSC 1442

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Regina (C'Wealth) v Elomar & Ors [No 1] [2008] NSWSC 1442

HEARING DATE(S) : 05/11/08

JUDGMENT DATE : 5 November 2008

JURISDICTION : Criminal

JUDGMENT OF : Whealy J at 1

DECISION : I allow both the chronology and, subject to the amendments I have made, introductory remarks contained in MFI 5 and the written direction in MFI 6.

CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW - Practice and Procedure - Use of Road Map or Chronolgy - Documents that may be presented to Jury during Crown opening - Unfairness to accused in Crown opening - Judge's Direction to Jury at commencement of a trial - Whether it is appropriate to give the Jury written directions at the outset - Directions re Terrorist Act

Commonwealth Code Act LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Procedure Act Jury Act 1977

R v Bartle [2003] NSWCCA 329 at 669, 672 and (684-693) R v Plomp (1963) 10 CLR 234 at 252 CASES CITED : R v Sukkar [2005] NSWCCA 54 at 8 per Wood CJ at CL R v Taousanis (1999) 146 A Crim R 303 at 305-7 per Sperling J The Queen v MM [NSWCCA 81 The Queen v Radford (1986) 133 LSJS per King CJ at 110

Regina (C'Wealth) v Mohamed Ali ELOMAR [No 1 Regina (C'Wealth) v Abdul Rakib HASAN PARTIES : Regina (C'Wealth) v Khaled CHEIKHO Regina (C'Wealth) v Moustafa CHEIKHO Regina v Mohammed Omar JAMAL

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2007/2399001; 2007/2400001; 2007/2395001; 2007/2398001; 2007/2452001

R Maidment SC; G Bellew SC; C O'Donnell; Ms S McNaughton - Crown D Dalton SC; E. Ozen - Accused Elomar COUNSEL : Ms D Yehia; Ms S Beckett - Accused Hasan C Waterstreet; P Lange - Accused K Cheikho R Button SC; I Nash - Accused M Cheikho G Scragg; D Carroll - Accused Jamal