Regina (C'Wealth) v Baladjam & Ors [No 45] [2008] NSWSC 1464

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Regina (C'Wealth) v Baladjam & Ors [No 45] [2008] NSWSC 1464

HEARING DATE(S) : 08/09/08

JUDGMENT DATE : 9 September 2008

JURISDICTION : Criminal

JUDGMENT OF : Whealy J at 1

DECISION : Order that Channel 7 be restrained from broadcsting the news item represented in Exhibits 4 and 5 and proposed to be broadcast on 6pm News on 9 September 2008. Liberty to apply on 2 hours notice. Costs reserved for Motion stood over generally.

CATCHWORDS : CIVIL LAW - Injunction to restrain media from publishing a broadcast on its national news program - Contempt of Court - Principles applicable to restrain threatened contempt of Court.

Hinch v Attorney General (198) CLR 15 at 41-42 CASES CITED : Baltinos v Foreign Language Publications Pty Ltd (1986) 6 NSWLR 85 Prothonotary v Collins (1985) 2 NSWLR 549

Regina (C'Wealth) v Omar BALADJAM [No 45] Regina (C'Wealth) v Khaled CHEIKHO Regina (C'Wealth) v Moustafa CHEIKHO Regina (C'Wealth) v Mohamed Ali ELOMAR PARTIES : Regina (C'Wealth) v Abdul Rakib HASAN Regina (C'Wealth) v Mohammed Omar JAMAL Regina (C'Wealth) v Mirsad MULAHALILOVIC Regina (C'Wealth) v Khaled SHARROUF Regina (C'Wealth) v Mazen TOUMA

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2007/2397001;; 2007/2395001; 2007/2398001; 2007/2399001; 2007/2400001; 2007/2452001; 2007/2454001; 2007/2396001; 2007/2455001

G. Bellew SC; C. Donnell; Ms S McNaughton - Crown D.R. Sibtain - Channel 7 M Buscombe SC; R Pontello - Accused Baladjam C Waterstreet; P Lange - Accused K Cheikho R Button SC; I Nash - Accused M Cheikho D Dalton SC; E Ozen - Accused Elomar COUNSEL : Ms D Yehia; Ms S Beckett - Accused Hasan Hale SC; G Scragg; D Carroll - Accused Jamal G Turnbull SC; A Djemal - Accused Mulahalilovic W Brewer; M Pickin - Accused Sharrouf S Hanley; - Accused Touma