R v Hawi & ors (No 9) [2011] NSWSC 1655

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Hawi & ors (No 9) [2011] NSWSC 1655 Hearing dates: 23 May 2011 Decision date: 30 May 2011 Jurisdiction: Common Law - Criminal Before: R A Hulme J Decision: Application granted in part Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW - procedure - witnesses - further applications for pseudonym orders for individual eye-witnesses - direction to the jury concerning the use of pseudonyms by some witnesses Legislation Cited: Evidence Act 1995 Cases Cited: BUSB v R [2011] NSWCCA 39 R v Davis [2008] UKHL 36; [2008] AC 1128 R v Hawi & ors (No 2) R v Murphy [1990] NI 306 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Commissioner of Police Regina Mahmoud Hawi Christian Adam Menzies Farres Abounader Ishmail Eken Usama Potrus Zoran Kisacanin David Padovan Representation: Counsel: Mr R Bromwich SC with Mr R Bhalla (Commissioner of Police) Ms N Adams with Ms H Roberts (Crown) Mr P Dunn QC with Mr S Grant (Hawi) Mr J Stratton SC (Menzies) Mr J Trevallion (Abounader) Mr P Young SC (Eken) Mr R Driels (Potrus) Mr J Gordon (Kisacanin) Mr A Conwell (Padovan) Solicitors: Crown Solicitor (Commissioner of Police) Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Crown) Sid Hawach & Co (Hawi) Hunter Flood Pty Limited (Menzies) Archbold Legal (Abounader) Purcell Felton Lawyers (Eken) Barakat Lawyers (Potrus) Elie Rahme & Associates (Kisacanin) Nyman Gibson Stewart (Padovan) File Number(s): 2009/50087