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The temporary of proof towards former NSW MP Daryl Maguire and his co-accused in an alleged visa fraud is 13 gigabytes and would price $17,000 simply to print, their legal professionals say.
Maguire, 63, allegedly conspired with migration agent Maggie Ning Logan to breach the migration act between January 2013 and August 2015.
He faces jail time or a most tremendous of $34,000.
Logan was hit with 28 new expenses on Monday night time, her lawyer William Vahl informed the Downing Heart Native Court docket on Tuesday.
“The (courtroom attendance notices) aren’t adequately particularised, these new ones, such that it is attainable to know the case my consumer’s required to satisfy,” Mr Vahl stated.
Justice of the Peace Susan Horan requested: “When was all this despatched by means of?”
Crown prosecutor Liam MacAndrews stated it was “being filed final night time”.
Mr Vahl stated the brand new notices had been lacking an announcement of alleged info.
He’s additionally going through difficulties getting ready for the case, unable to entry his consumer’s cellphone as a result of the Impartial Fee In opposition to Corruption nonetheless has it, he informed the courtroom.
Mr Vahl and Maguire’s lawyer Jim Harrowell each took situation with how they acquired the temporary of proof towards their purchasers.
“Whereas an digital copy of the temporary of proof has been served and that is useful, there hasn’t been a tough copy,” Mr Vahl stated.
“It is 13 gigabytes and plenty of folders and subfolders,” he stated.
Mr Harrowell stated the temporary was “substantial”.
“If we have now to print that temporary it is $17,000,” he stated.
The pair requested the Crown present a tough copy on Tuesday.
Mr Vahl stated it was unreasonable for the protection to bear the price of printing the temporary of proof.
“The temporary has been served in digital type. Is that how the DPP serves its briefs nowadays?” Ms Horan requested.
Mr MacAndrews informed the courtroom: “That is the usual strategy.”
Ms Horan made no formal order and informed the events to work it out between themselves.
“Why do not I offer you two weeks to see if there’s progress there?” she stated.
Maguire, the previous Wagga Wagga MP, was charged in November however has not but entered a plea, and his conditional bail was continued on Tuesday, as was Logan’s.
Each have been excused from showing when their matter returns to courtroom on April 4.
Maguire resigned from NSW parliament in 2018 after an anti-corruption inquiry, which later uncovered his secret romantic relationship with former premier Gladys Berejiklian.
There isn’t any suggestion Ms Berejiklian was concerned in any alleged offence.
– AAP
