Australia, Aug. 11 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 11:
1. LEEMING JA: This interlocutory appeal from a pre-trial ruling by the District Court in the prosecution of two persons for a federal drug offence presents questions of general application concerning the operation of the Criminal Code contained in the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth).
2. The respondent, Mr Lachlan Ingram, stands charged on a joint indictment with Ms Shania Rose Carr with a single count of attempted possession of a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border controlled drug, contrary to s 307.5(1) read with s 11.1(1) of the Code. The essential facts are scarcely unusual. The Crown contends that Mr Ingra...