Lawson v The Queen

[2001] HCATrans 96

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Sydney  No S155 of 2000

B e t w e e n -

LESLIE HAROLD LAWSON

Applicant

and

THE QUEEN

Respondent

Application for special leave to appeal

GLEESON CJ
KIRBY J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT SYDNEY ON FRIDAY, 6 APRIL 2001, AT 10.41 AM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

MR J. BASTEN, QC:   Your Honour, I appear with my learned friend, MR G.J.L. SCRAGG, for the applicant.  (instructed by Jacovou Barlow & Associates.

MR R.D. ELLIS:   Your Honour, I appear for the respondent.  (instructed by S.E. O’Connor, Solicitor for Public Prosecutions)

MR BASTEN:   I think this may be briefly dealt with, accepting what your Honour suggested this morning that it would be appropriate if it were stood until judgment were given in Adam, possibly with the possibility of leave for supplementary submissions, if that were appropriate after the judgment.

GLEESON CJ:   Yes, certainly, Mr Basten.  Do you agree to that, Mr Ellis?

MR ELLIS:   Certainly, your Honour, yes.

GLEESON CJ:   I think that is a good idea, having regard to the issues that were argued in that.  Very well, by consent this matter will be stood over today’s list, to be fixed again after the Court has given its reasons for judgment in the matter of Adam v The Queen, and both parties will have leave to supplement their written submissions in the light of that decision, as they may be advised.

AT 10.42 AM THE MATTER WAS ADJOURNED