State of New South Wales v Dickson (Final) [2020] NSWSC 100

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: State of New South Wales v Dickson (Final) [2020] NSWSC 100 Hearing dates: 14 February 2020 Decision date: 20 February 2020 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Ierace J Decision: (1) The summons is dismissed.

(2) The Interim Supervision Order made on 7 November 2019 (which came into effect on 24 November 2019 and was renewed on 18 December 2019, 12 January 2020 and 14 February 2020) is discharged forthwith.

(3) Access to the Court's file in this proceeding is restricted such that access is permitted to a non-party only with the leave of a Judge of the Court, and with prior notice to the parties, so as to allow them an opportunity to be heard in respect of the application for access. Catchwords: HIGH RISK OFFENDER – terrorism activity offender – final hearing – application for extended supervision order – interim supervision order previously made – whether "unacceptable risk of committing terrorist offence" if released – summons dismissed and interim supervision order discharged Legislation Cited: Commonwealth Criminal Code, s 100.1 Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), s 140 Terrorism (High Risk Offenders) Act 2017 (NSW), ss 3, 10, 20, 21, 25 Cases Cited: Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1983) 60 CLR 336; [1938] HCA 34 Neat Holdings Pty Ltd v Karajan Holdings Pty Ltd (1992) 67 ALJR 170; [1992] HCA 66 Palmer v Dolman; Dolman v Palmer [2005] NSWCA 361 R v Petroulias (No 8) (2007) 175 A Crim R 417; [2007] NSWSC 82 State of New South Wales v Dickson (Preliminary) [2019] NSWSC 1534 State of New South Wales v Naaman (No 2) (2018) 365 ALR 179; [2018] NSWCA 328 State of New South Wales v RC (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 845 Texts Cited: Oxford Online Dictionary Category: Principal judgment Parties: State of New South Wales (Plaintiff) George Alexander Dickson (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Tedeschi SC; C Palmer (Plaintiff) E Kerkyasharian (Defendant)