LEGAL arguments on whether to stay barrister Kevin Egan's trial for allegedly assisting former Legal Department colleague Warwick Reid to escape continued in the High Court yesterday.
Deputy Judge Jones heard submissions from Mr Adrian Huggins QC, for the Crown, opposing Egan's application for a stay. Egan is claiming abuse of process and that he could not get a fair trial as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Defence counsel Mr John McNamara will reply today.
Egan, 45, is charged with assisting Reid with intent to impede his apprehension or prosecution by passing information to him about the ICAC investigation into his assets, offering to obtain a shotgun for him and providing him with a firearm, ammunition and a passport.
He is also charged with possessing a firearm without a licence, transferring his Australian passport to Reid and possessing arms and ammunition with intent to endanger life between October 1989 and January 1990. No pleas have been taken.
Reid is serving an eight-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in 1990 to having assets he could not explain.
