R v AC (No 6)

[2016] NSWSC 356

Supreme Court

New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation:	R v AC (No 6) [2016] NSWSC 356
Hearing dates:	29 March 2016
Date of orders:	29 March 2016
Decision date:	29 March 2016
Jurisdiction:	Common Law - Criminal
Before:	Hamill J
Decision:	Address nominated in exhibit AC2 be suppressed until further order of the Court
Catchwords:	CRIMINAL LAW – non-publication of private information – necessary for the safety of the witness – no question of principle
Legislation Cited:	Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW)
Category:	Procedural and other rulings
Parties:	Regina (Applicant) Witness M (Respondent)
Representation:	Counsel: K McKay & P Hogan (Crown) H Dhanji (Witness M)   Solicitors: Solicitor for the NSW DPP(Crown) Oxford Lawyers (Witness M)
File Number(s):	2014/90422; 2014/315510
Publication restriction:	No publication until further order of the court

EX tempore Judgment (revised)

1. The current offender has offered to give evidence against a number of people who the evidence suggests would be motivated and capable of doing her and her family harm.

2. Her mother has just given evidence and in the course of doing so a medical certificate was tendered which has an address of a medical practice in a suburb in Sydney. It is necessary to protect the family of the now offender and would-be witness and is, in terms of the Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW), necessary to make an order to protect the safety of the offender's family and in particular the mother who was the last witness to give evidence.

3. Accordingly, I order that the address nominated in exhibit AC2 will be suppressed until further order of the Court.

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Decision last updated: 13 December 2016