Australia, April 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 12:
1. The fourth defendant, Nick Kalantzis, objects to the tender of a video recording on the basis that it was recorded contrary to s 11(1) of the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW).
2. It is an offence to use a listening device to record a private conversation: s 7(1)(b), Surveillance Devices Act 2007. It is not an offence if "all of the principal parties to the conversation consent, expressly or impliedly, to the listening device being so used": s 7(3)(a). Further, s 11(1) provides:
A person must not publish, or communicate to any person, a private conversation or a record of the carrying on of an activity, or a report o...