Behrends v The Queen

[2000] HCATrans 277

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Brisbane  No B30 of 1999

B e t w e e n -

HARRY BEHRENDS

Applicant

and

THE QUEEN

Respondent

Application for special leave to appeal

GAUDRON J
GUMMOW J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT BRISBANE ON WEDNESDAY, 21 JUNE 2000, AT 3.03 PM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

MR H. BEHRENDS:   May it please the Court, I appear in person in this matter.

MS L.J. CLARE:   May it please the Court, I appear for the respondent in this matter. (instructed by the Director of Public Prosecutions (Queensland))

GAUDRON J:   Yes, Mr Behrends.

MR BEHRENDS:   Your Honours, this is an application for special leave to appeal and I rely here on my application book and I set out all the arguments for this application on pages 83 to 94 and in reply from pages 101 to the end.  At that stage I have no further addition and that is all what I have to say in this matter at this stage.

GAUDRON J:   Thank you, Mr Behrends, we have read those submissions.

MR BEHRENDS:   O.K.

GAUDRON J:   We need not trouble you, Ms Clare. 

We have, before coming into Court, Mr Behrends, read all your submissions in this matter and we are of the view that your proposed appeal does not enjoy sufficient prospects of ultimate success to justify the grant of special leave.  Accordingly, special leave is refused.

Call the next application, please.

AT 3.05 PM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED