NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Potier v Magistrate O'Shane & Anor [2008] NSWSC 141
HEARING DATE(S) : 15/05/2006; 10/07/2006; 15/03/2007; 03/05/2007; 15/06/2007;
JUDGMENT DATE : 3 March 2008
JURISDICTION : Common Law Division
JUDGMENT OF : Hidden J at 1
DECISION : Summons dismissed
CATCHWORDS : MAGISTRATES: - Private prosecution - refusal by registrar to issue court attendance notice - review of that decision by a magistrate - whether review appropriate - power of a magistrate to determine whether court attendance notice should be issued after refusal by registrar - whether refusal to issue court attendance notice in the instant case affected by denial of procedural fairness or constructive failure to exercise jurisdiction
Criminal Procedure Act 1986 [ss48 & 49(3)] Local Courts (Criminal and Applications Procedure) Rule (cl 57; cl 61) LEGISLATION CITED : Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1986 (s15A) Crimes Act 1900 Felons (Civil Proceedings) Act 1981
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Potier v R [2006] NSWCCA 27 Potier v Magistrate Maughan [2004] NSWSC 590 CASES CITED : Ex parte Qantas Airways Ltd; Re Horsington & Anor [1969] 1 NSWR 788 R v Emmett and Masland (1988) 14 NSWLR 327 Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden Society v Parkinson [1892] 1 QB 431 Potier v Magistrate Huber [2004] NSWSC 720
TEXTS CITED : "Secrets of the Jury Room" Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Huntley Potier (plaintiff) PARTIES : Magistrate P O'Shane (1st defendant) Detective Superintendent David Laidlaw (2nd defendant)
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