Nguyen v The Queen

[1998] HCATrans 457

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Melbourne  No M112 of 1997

B e t w e e n -

VAN NAM NGUYEN

Applicant

and

THE QUEEN

Respondent

Application for special leave to appeal

GUMMOW J
CALLINAN J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT MELBOURNE ON FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER 1998, AT 12.32 PM

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MS L. LIEDER, QC:   If the Court pleases, I appear on behalf of the applicant.  (instructed by Melasecca Zayler)

MR P.A. COGHLAN, QC:   I appear with my learned friend, MR T. GYORFFY, for the respondent.  (instructed by P. Wood, Solicitor to the Director of Public Prosecutions (Victoria))

GUMMOW J:   Yes.  Is there some application to adjourn this matter?

MR COGHLAN:   There is.  Your Honour, the Court may be aware that in ‑ ‑ ‑

GUMMOW J:   Do not tell us too much.  We will ask if it is opposed.

MR COGHLAN:   It is not as I understand it.

GUMMOW J:   It is not opposed?

MS LIEDER:   It is not opposed, your Honours.

GUMMOW J:   If both parties are in favour of this course, we will adjourn the motion to the next motion day in Melbourne, which is on 12 February 1999.

MR COGHLAN:   If the Court pleases.

MS LIEDER:   If the Court pleases.

AT 12.33 PM THE MATTER WAS ADJOURNED
UNTIL FRIDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 1999