The Queen v Puckeridge

[1999] HCATrans 494

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Sydney  No S21 of 1999

B e t w e e n -

THE QUEEN

Appellant

and

ROY ROBERT PUCKERIDGE

Respondent

Reasons for Decision

GUMMOW J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT CANBERRA ON TUESDAY, 21 DECEMBER 1999, AT 2.15 PM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

GUMMOW J:   This matter was heard in Canberra on 30 September 1999 by a Bench comprising Justices Gaudron, McHugh, Kirby, Hayne and Callinan.  At the completion of the hearing, the Court:

1.  Allowed the appeal;

2.  Set aside the orders of the Court of Criminal Appeal of New South Wales made on 2 November 1998 to the extent that those orders allowed the appeal to that court, quashed the conviction and sentence and directed the entry of a verdict of acquittal on the indictment for murder; and

3.  Remitted the matter to the Court of Criminal Appeal for further hearing and determination of the appeal and grounds other than ground 4 in the amended notice of appeal.

The Court then announced that its reasons for the making of those orders would be delivered at a later date.

I now publish those joint reasons.

AT 2.16 PM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED