Parr v Department of Transport and Main Roads

DISTRICT COURT OF QUEENSLAND CITATION: Parr v Department of Transport and Main Roads [2020] QDC 153 PARTIES: ANTHONY CRAIG PARR (appellant) v QUEENSLAND POLICE SERVICE (respondent) FILE NO/S: 001/20 DIVISION: Civil PROCEEDING: Appeal ORIGINATING COURT: Magistrates Court, Ipswich DELIVERED ON: 7 July 2020 DELIVERED AT: Ipswich HEARING DATE: 24 March 2020 JUDGE: Horneman-Wren SC DCJ ORDER: The appeal is dismissed CATCHWORDS: MAGISTRATES – APPEAL AND REVIEW – QUEENSLAND – APPEAL – where applicant’s drivers licence suspended for accumulation of demerit points – where special hardship order applied for – where special hardship order application stayed suspension until day before hearing of application –  where special hardship order refused – whether applicant had authority to drive a motor vehicle on the road COUNSEL: The appellant appeared in person Ms K Dodds for the respondent SOLICITORS: Senior Legal Officer, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the respondent On 10 December 2019, a magistrate convicted the appellant, Mr Parr, of driving without a driver's licence.[1] He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for a period of 6 months,[2] was fined $200 and a conviction was recorded.  He appeals against his conviction. [1]Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (‘TORUM Act’) s 78(1)(a).[2]The 6 months disqualification was the mandatory period prescribed by s 78(3)b) of the TORUM Act.The notice of appeal sets out the following grounds of appeal: ·     That the magistrate erred by failing to consider that the Queensland Police Service (‘QPS’) and the Office of the Director...