Moussa v The State of NSW [2010] NSWSC 528

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Moussa v The State of NSW [2010] NSWSC 528

HEARING DATE(S) : 18 May 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 May 2010

JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Harrison AsJ

(1) Leave to file the further reply is granted. DECISION : (2) The reply is to be filed and served by 4.00 pm on 15 June 2010. (3) The defendant is to pay the plaintiff's costs as agreed or assessed. (4) The matter is listed for a status conference 22 June 2010 at 9.00 am before the Registrar.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - Strike out reply - Leave to file amended reply - Whether prosecutions brought without reasonable and probable cause - Whether same burden and onus of proof - Whether between same parties - Whether issue estoppel applies

Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED : Crown Proceedings Act 1988 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

A v State of New South Wales & Anor [2007] HCA 10; (2007)230 CLR 500 Blair v Curran [1939] 62 CLR 464 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Clancy v Santoro [1999] 3 VR 783 Commonwealth of Australia v Griffiths & Anor [2007] NSWCA 370; [2007] 70 NSWLR 268 Davis v Gell (1924) 35 CLR 275 Dey v Victorian Railway Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62; [1949] ALR 333 Earnshaw v Loy (No 1) [1959] VR 248 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) & Ors (1964) 112 CLR 125; [1965] ALR 636 Haines v Tempesta (1995) 37 NSWLR 24 Health Care Complaints Commission v Litchfield [1997] 41 NSWLR 630 Helton v Allen (1940) 63 CLR 691 John L Pty Ltd v Attorney-General (NSW) (1987) 163 CLR 508; (1987) 73 ALR 545 CASES CITED : Kosanovic v Sarapuu [1962] VR 321 Munday v Gill (1930) 44 CLR 38 Nye v State of New South Wales [2003] 1212 R v Inhabitants of the Township of Hartington Middle Quarter (1855) 4 EI & BL 780; (1855) 119 ER 288 Hoystead v Commissioner of Taxation (1926) 42 TLR 207 R v Storey (1978) 140 CLR 364; 22 ALR 47 Ramsay v Pigran [1968] 118 CLR 271 Re a Medical Practitioner [1959] NZLR 784 Rejfek v McElroy (1965) 112 CLR 517; [1966] ALR 270 Riley v Riley [2000] NSWCA 64 Rogers v The Queen [1994] HCA 42; (1994) 181 CLR 251; (1994) 123 ALR 417 Savile v Roberts (1698) 1 Ld Raym 374; (1698) 91 ER 1147 Thoday v Thoday [1964] P 181; [1964] 1 All ER 341 Wynyard Investments Pty Ltd v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1955) 93 CLR 376; [1956] ALR 49 Air Services Australia v Zarb (Court of Appeal, 26 August 1998, unreported). Webster & Anor v Lampard [1993] HCA 57; (1993) 177 CLR 598