W O v DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (NSW) [2009] NSWCA 370

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: W O v DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (NSW) [2009] NSWCA 370

HEARING DATE(S): 20 October 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 16 November 2009

JUDGMENT OF: Basten JA at 1; Fullerton AJA at 1; MCCallum AJA at 1

(1) Grant the applicant leave to rely upon the proposed amended summons as filed and dispense with further requirements of the rules in relation thereto. DECISION: (2) Dismiss the Summons. (3) No order as to the costs of the parties in this Court.

CATCHWORDS: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – prohibition – application in relation to pending criminal proceeding – jurisdictional error – rulings on points of law – concurrent appeal under s 5F of the Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW) – no interlocutory judgment or order engaging jurisdiction under s 5F – whether relief in the nature of prohibition available – whether jurisdictional error - WORDS AND PHRASES – "interlocutory judgment or order" – "jurisdictional error"

Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW), s 5F Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW), ss 46, 130 LEGISLATION CITED: District Court Act 1973 (NSW), ss 9, 11, 166 Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW), s 179 Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), ss 17, 69

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Adler v District Court of New South Wales (1990) 19 NSWLR 317 Barton v Walker [1979] NSWLR 740 Cesan v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2007] NSWCCA 273; 174 A Crim R 385 Chief Executive Officer of Customs v Jiang [2001] FCA 145; 111 FCR 395 CASES CITED: Chow v Director of Public Prosecutions (1992) 28 NSWLR 593 Craig v South Australia [1995] HCA 58; 184 CLR 163 Fish v Solution 6 Holdings Ltd [2006] HCA 22; 225 CLR 180 Lee v Cha [2008] NSWCA 13 R v Powch (1988) 14 NSWLR 136 Solution 6 Holdings Ltd v Industrial Relations Commission (NSW) [2004] NSWCA 200; 60 NSWLR 558