The Supreme Court recently ruled in DPP v Twigg & Anor that the failure of a police informant to tick a box on the charge and summons document did not lead to the invalidity of process, and remitted the matter to the Magistrates' Court to be dealt with according to law. Barrister Warwick Walsh-Buckley had …

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The Supreme Court recently ruled in DPP v Twigg & Anor that the failure of a police informant to tick a box on the charge and summons document did not lead to the invalidity of process, and remitted the matter to the Magistrates' Court to be dealt with according to law. Barrister Warwick Walsh-Buckley had …

Continue reading DPP v Twigg & Anor [2010] VSC 145: ticking the boxes