Collins v The Queen

[2002] HCATrans 303

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Adelaide  No A34 of 2001

B e t w e e n -

ROBERT WAYNE COLLINS

Applicant

and

THE QUEEN

Respondent

Application for special leave to appeal

GUMMOW J
KIRBY J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT ADELAIDE ON WEDNESDAY, 14 AUGUST 2002, AT 3.29 PM

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GUMMOW J:   The Court has considered the written submissions of the applicant and the respondent and the other materials in the application books.  There is no substance in the complaint by the applicant concerning the length of the period between the hearing in the South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal and the delivery of its judgment.  The appeal court had before it 11 volumes of transcript in addition to the appeal books and complex financial records.

The grounds upon which the applicant challenges the conduct of the trial in which he was convicted of an offence contrary to section 233B of the Customs Act 1901 involved the application of settled principles, particularly with reason to the admission of evidence. There was no miscarriage of justice in the circumstances of the case, and special leave is refused.

AT 3.31 PM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED