Palmer v Commissioner of Police

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Extension of time
  3. › Application for leave to appeal
  4. › Considerations relevant to grant
  5. › Whether good reason for delay
  6. › Whether substantial injustice
  7. › Whether reasonable argument of error
  8. › District Court of Queensland Act 1967 (Qld), s 118(3)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Jurisdiction of District Court
  3. › Appeal from Magistrates Court
  4. › Refusal of bail
  5. › Whether order refusing bail is an order made in a summary way on a complaint for an offence
  6. › Justices Act 1886 (Qld), s 222
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentence
  3. › Appeal against sentence
  4. › Hearing in absence of appellant
  5. › Right to be present
  6. › Whether right denied where appellant had notice and failed to appear
  7. › Justices Act 1886 (Qld), ss 224, 224A, 229(3)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Abridgment of time for service
  4. › Order made on judge's own initiative without notice to party
  5. › Whether error material where appeal decided on merits
  6. › Justices Act 1886 (Qld), ss 224(3), 229(3)

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