Wallace & Anor v Director General - NSW Department of Primary Industries & Anor [2007] NSWSC 654

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Wallace & Anor v Director General - NSW Department of Primary Industries & Anor [2007] NSWSC 654

HEARING DATE(S) : 21 June 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 27 June 2007

JURISDICTION : Common Law Division

JUDGMENT OF : Associate Justice Harrison

DECISION : (1) The summons filed 16 August 2006 is dismissed; (2) The plaintiffs are to pay the defendants' costs as agreed or assessed.

CATCHWORDS : Judicial review - decision of Local Court Magistrate - s 175(3)(c), Criminal Procedure Act - name of prosecutor

Courts Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2002 Criminal Procedure Act 1986 - ss 172, 175 LEGISLATION CITED : Fisheries Management Act 1994 - ss 3, 289 Justices Act 1902 Fisheries Management (Lobster Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 - s 65, cll 22, 42, 48

Graham Blight v Inspector Barber [2007] NSWSC 448 CASES CITED : John L Proprietary Limited v Attorney-General (NSW) (1987) 163 CLR 508 Knaggs v Director of Public Prosecutions [2007] NSWCA 83

Paul Charles Wallace - First Plaintiff PARTIES : Paul Anthony Harrison - Second Plaintiff Director General - NSW Department of Primary Industries - First Defendant Shaughan McCosker - Second Defendant

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 14032/2006

COUNSEL : Mr M Preece - Plaintiffs Ms D Ward - First Defendant

SOLICITORS : Merrick Spicer & Associates - Plaintiffs Mr I V Knight, Crown Solicitor - First Defendant

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Local Court

LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER : McCosker LCM