Bond v The Queen
Court	High Court of Australia
Full case name	Bond v The Queen
Decided	14 August 1992
Citation(s)	[2000] HCA 13, (2000) 201CLR 213; 169 ALR 607
Case history
Prior action(s)	The Queen v Bond (1997) 24 ACSR 518; (1997) 95 A Crim R 246
Appealed from	WA Court of Criminal Appeal
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne JJ
Case opinions
(6:0) The authority contained in s17 of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 (Cth) did not give the Commonwealth DPP the power to institute appeals in state courts. (per curiam) (6:0) The common law principles relating to the validity of acts done by an invalidly appointed public officer had no application. (per curiam)

Bond v The Queen,^[1] was a significant case decided in the High Court of Australia regarding the power of the Commonwealth DPP to institute appeals in state courts.

Background

Alan Bond had pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to two charges of failing to act honestly in his capacity as an officer of a company, with intent to defraud the company and its shareholders. He was sentenced to a total of four years imprisonment. The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed his sentence to the Court of Criminal Appeal, of which the court allowed the appeal and sentenced Alan Bond to seven years imprisonment.^[1]

Alan Bond appealed to the High Court on the grounds that the Director of Public Prosecutions did not have the authority to appeal the sentence imposed on him.

Judgement

The appeal was allowed.

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