NSW Government Bulletin - 12 November 2014

In a decision dated 10 November 2014, Hoeben CJ at Common Law has dismissed an application by the Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC and two others. The application sought declarations and orders restraining in relation to an investigation by ICAC known as Operation Hale. Operation Hale concerns allegations that on 31 May 2014, the first and second plaintiffs, with the intention to pervert the course of justice, counselled the third plaintiff to pretend to have chest pains and that the third plaintiff, with the intention to pervert the course of justice, did pretend to have chest pains to prevent investigating police officers from obtaining evidence of the third plaintiff's blood alcohol level at the scene of a motor vehicle accident.