NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Sleiman v Commissioner of Corrective Services & Anor; Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services & Anor [2009] NSWSC 304
HEARING DATE(S) : 24, 25 November 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 24 April 2009
JURISDICTION : Common Law Division
JUDGMENT OF : Adams J at 1
DECISION : Leave granted to commence proceedings for administrative relief and damages
CATCHWORDS : Prisoners - segregation - whether segregation direction under s 10 essential - effect of non-compliance - placement in special units - restriction on residual liberty - prison within a prison - leave to commence proceedings - whether administrative law relief available - whether false imprisonment
Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Regulation 2001 LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Felons (Civil Proceedings) Act 1981 Prisons Act 1952 Uniform Civil Proceedings Rules 2005
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Behrooz v Secretary, Department of immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2004) 219 CLR 486 Bennett v Superintendent, Rimutaka Prison [2002] 1 NZLR 616 Cobbett v Grey (1849) 4 Ex 729 Collins v Downs & Ors (unreported, NSWSC 14 December 1982 Graham Barclay Oysters Pty Ltd v Ryan (2002) 211 CLR 540 Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services [2007] NSWSC 1469 Hunter Area Health Service & Anor v Presland [2005] NSWCA 33; (2005) 63 NSWLR 22 May & Ors v The Warden ofFerndale Institution & Ors [2005] 3 SCR 809; (2005) 261 DLR (4th) 541 CASES CITED : Osborne v Millman (1886) 17 QBD 14 Miller v The Queen [1985] 2 SCR 613; (1985) 24 DLR (4TH) 9 Precision Products (NSW) Pty Limited v Hawkesbury City Council [2008] NSWCA 278 Prisoners A-XX Inclusive v State of New South Wales (1995) 38 NSWLR 622 Ruddock and Ors v Taylor [2003] NSWCA 262; (2003) 58 NSWLR 269 R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison; Ex Parte Hague; Weldon v The Home Office [1992] 1 AC 58 Sleiman v Commissioner, NSW Department of Corrective Services [2008] NSWSC 617 Soh v Commonwealth of Australia (2008) 231 ALR 425; [2008] FCA 520 (Madgwick J), Yorke v Chapman (1839) 113 ER 80
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