Peter Charles Spratt v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2010] NSWSC 355

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Peter Charles Spratt v Director of Public Prosecutions & Anor [2010] NSWSC 355

HEARING DATE(S) : 3 November 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 30 April 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Hidden J

DECISION : Summons dismissed.

CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW - committal proceedings - sexual assault charges - application for leave to appeal and other relief against magistrate's disposition of applications under ss 91/93, Criminal Procedure Act - material concerning complainant's sexual experience in prosecution brief - decision by prosecution not to lead that material in evidence - whether material "disclosed ... in the case for the prosecution" for the purpose of s 293(6), Criminal Procedure Act - whether work association and friendship between complainant and accused a "relationship" for the purpose of s 293(4)

Criminal Procedure Act 1986 Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Act 1970 Crimes Act 1900 Justices Act 1902

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Nanevski v Haskett & Anor [2006] NSWSC 1114 Director of Public Prosecutions v O'Conner [2006] NSWSC 458, 181 A Crim R 294 R v Linskey (1986) 23 A Crim R 224 R v Baden Cram [2008] NSWDC 225 Rolfe v R [2007] NSWCCA 155, 173 A Crim R 168 R v Rymer [2005] NSWCCA 310, 156 A Crim R 84 CASES CITED : Mahmood v Western Australia [2008] HCA 1, 232 CLR 397 Subramaniam v The Queen [2004] HCA 51, 79 ALJR 116 R v Livermore [2006] NSWCCA 334, 67 NSWLR 659 R v Henning & Ors (CCA, unreported, 11 May 1990) R v White (CCA, unreported, 13 December 1989) R v Kennedy (1997) 94 A Crim R 341 Sim v Magistrate Corbett & Anor [2006] NSWSC 665