Financial support payments by police to witnesses to maintain their willingness to give evidence do not constitute an abuse of process warranting a stay of proceedings, provided the payments were not designed to procure evidence and were not illegal, even where the payments were substantial, made in response to threats by witnesses, and outside existing guidelines. Mere knowledge by Australian authorities that a foreign government's deportation of an accused may be unlawful does not amount to the active involvement or connivance necessary to establish a 'disguised extradition'. The question whether a respondent to an appeal under s 669A(1A) of the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld) may file a notice of contention raising grounds rejected below was left unresolved, with Holmes JA holding the respondent could not and Fraser JA holding the respondent could.
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