New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (APPEAL AND REVIEW) ACT 2001 - SECT 28

28 Miscellaneous powers

(1) Without limiting its other powers, the District Court may do any one or more of the following--

(a) it may specify the proclaimed place (within the meaning of the District Court Act 1973 ) at which the hearing of an appeal or application for leave to appeal is to be heard or continued,

(b) it may specify the sitting at which the hearing of an appeal or application for leave to appeal is to be heard or continued,

(c) it may adjourn the hearing of an appeal or application for leave to appeal.

(2) In determining an appeal, the District Court may exercise any function that the Local Court could have exercised in the original Local Court proceedings.

(3) Subject to section 70, the District Court may make such order as to the costs to be paid by either party (including the Crown) as it thinks just.