Taylor v Environment Protection Authority

(2000) 50 NSWLR 48; [2000] NSWCCA 71

NSW Court of Criminal Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law and Procedure
2. › Commencement of proceedings
3. › Information
4. › What constitutes an 'information'
5. › Whether summons issued under Land and Environment Court rules is an information
6. › Whether word 'information' used in wider or narrower sense
7. › Pesticides Act 1978 (NSW), s 59(3)
1. Criminal Law and Procedure
2. › Commencement of proceedings
3. › Information
4. › Whether statutory provision requiring proceedings to be commenced by information is mandatory
5. › Pesticides Act 1978 (NSW), s 59(3)
1. Criminal Law and Procedure
2. › Information
3. › Validity
4. › Essential particulars
5. › Distinction between legal elements and essential factual particulars
6. › Whether summons specifying legal elements but not acts or omissions constituting offence lacks essential particulars
1. Criminal Law and Procedure
2. › Information
3. › Validity
4. › Lord Jervis provision
5. › Whether defect in essential factual particulars cured by provision preventing objection to defects in substance or form
6. › Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW), s 43

Quick Take

A summons filed under Part 75 rule 7 of the Supreme Court Rules (as adapted for the Land and Environment Court) constitutes an 'information' within the meaning of s 59(3) of the Pesticides Act 1978, so proceedings commenced by such summons are validly commenced. However, the summons must specify the essential factual particulars of the offence (not merely the legal elements), though a failure to do so is cured by the Lord Jervis provision in s 43 of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979.