ON 23 APRIL 2014, Justice Adamson of the Supreme Court of NSW delivered McKellar v DPP [2014] NSWSC 459.
The court quashed a Local Court conviction and sentence to a defendant who the Magistrate determined was not present (and dealt with her case as though she was not present) despite her solicitor being present.
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