Wednesday, 25 February 2015

  S474.17 Criminal Code 1995/ Letter to Judge Jefferys Downing Center Sydney
Re Interpretation of Offensive by the Supreme Court
 

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26th February 2015

Judge Jefferys

District Court

Downing Centre  Sydney

 

Re Question of Law

Standard of  “offensiveness” to constitute a criminal charge

Supreme Court NSW

 

Dear Judge Jefferys

I refer to my Appeal in the District Court and the several times I have appeared before you  in applications for fresh evidence.

This  was an appeal from the Local Court. The Magistrate was Lisa Stapleton.

The complete failure and total disregard of Stapleton to apply   the correct standards  in S474.17 Criminal Code 1995  can only  show how fundamentally flawed the  NSW Judicial system is. Stapleton clearly showed no regard to any Higher Court Judgments  in regard to S474.17

 Taking everything into consideration it clearly appears inappropriate for you to refer to her as a learned magistrate when you are  aware  of her  failure and abuse of power in her decisions in regard   to this.

I therefore  need  a determination of question of law  in the Supreme Court because  I cannot have faith in your decisions  and believe there is a conflict of interest  making you vulnerable to protecting  her atrocious conduct instead of exposing it.

 

S 474.17 states S474.17

using a carriage service to menace harass or cause offence

A/ A person is guilty of  an offence if:

the person uses a carriage service and;

 the person does so in a way(  whether by the method or the use of contents  of communication or both that reasonable persons would regard as being in all the circumstances, menacing , harassing or offensive

. You will be aware from experience that  Menacing or Harassing to be criminal must cause extreme fear or anxiety  in a person to constitute a criminal charge . Therefore    “ Offensive”  must  have a collective interpretation  along with menace and harass.  The High Court’s decision in Monis V the Queen enforces this interpretation. Stapleton admitted to have read Monis 7 or eight times. Both you and Stapleton have read  “Brett David Starkey” which is the decision handed down by the District Court of Queensland  that  to convict it must be of a severity  that  it caused the relevant apprehension  or fear for safety. Stapleton failed in everyway to take any of this decision  into consideration .

You are also particularly aware that in Monis V the Queen the High Court  found that the narrow meaning of “offensive’ must be use. Therefore ,S473  Criminal Code must also have the narrow interpretation  to be considered criminal.

I have included this section for your convenience so you will not have to go to the trouble of looking this up.

S473

 Determining whether material is offensive

The matters to be taken into account  for this part whether  reasonable persons would regard  particular material or particular use of use he standards of  morality of the carriage service as being in all the circumstance offensive include:

a) the standards  of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults and,

b/ the literary, artistic or educational merit( if any)  of the general character of the material, and

c/ the general character of the  material( including whether it is of a medical legal or scientific in character

Judge Jefferys, If you took the narrow meaning of morality then it would need to be immoral to find it offensive. The narrow meaning of decency would be indecency or something close and the propriety should also have a narrow interpretation  and although I reminded Stapleton that she should read my blogs in correct context as required by S473 on several occasions  Stapleton saw no RELEVANCE in this.

Taking into careful consideration  the required  legislation  of S473 there  leaves little room for error of what “offensive’  is to be  considered under S474.17.

Therefore in the interest of Justice and  also in the interest of transparency the Supreme Court needs to give the correct standard for “ offensive” to be criminal.

You are aware the fault element is “ recklessness’  Recklessness must cause something. You are aware that this must cause anxiety  and fearfulness for ones safety. You are clearly aware this standard has in no way been met. and you are aware that Stapleton has failed in her duty as a magistrate.

The Supreme Court has requested a copy of the “Stated Case” or  certificate of Judgment  for proper  determination as soon as possible.

Unfortunately as I must reiterate again it has come to a matter where I have no confidence in you.

I am sure you understand my point  taking everything into consideration  of your appeared support of Lisa Stappleton as a learned Magistrate

A  quick response would be appreciated.

Thanking you

Fiona Brown

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