McEwan v Clark & Ors

[2023] QCA 120

Queensland Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Abuse of process
3. › Supreme Court supervisory jurisdiction over inferior courts
4. › Intervention in committal proceedings
5. › Whether exceptional circumstances warranting fragmentation of criminal proceedings
6. › Justices Act 1886 (Qld), ss 83A(7), 222
1. Criminal Law
2. › Committal proceedings
3. › Interlocutory orders of Magistrates Court
4. › Whether Supreme Court should intervene in disclosure and listing orders
5. › Whether interlocutory orders appealable
6. › Justices Act 1886 (Qld), ss 83A(7), 222
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Supervisory jurisdiction
4. › Jurisdictional error
5. › Whether Magistrates Court committed jurisdictional error warranting Supreme Court intervention
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Procedural fairness
4. › Whether primary judge afforded appellant procedural fairness
5. › Opportunity to be heard

Quick Take

The Supreme Court's supervisory jurisdiction over inferior courts does not extend to fragmenting committal proceedings absent jurisdictional error, and interlocutory orders of the Magistrates Court made under s 83A of the Justices Act 1886 (Qld) are not challengeable by way of originating application in the Supreme Court. Section 222 of the Justices Act does not provide a right of appeal from interlocutory orders of the Magistrates Court.