15 Apr 2025
The application was refused because the dangerous driving sentence was not excessive: it was a separate, serious offence involving dangerous flight from police that fortuitously caused no injuries; the sentencing judge applied appropriate discounts and did not double count aggravating features, and it was proper to order the sentences to run consecutively.
19 Dec 2024
Leave to appeal against sentence was granted because it was reasonably arguable that the overall 4-year sentence was manifestly excessive due to potential double counting of enhancements for previous convictions leading to an inflated notional starting point, while the starting points for individual offences and the disqualification order were not themselves plainly unreasonable.
26 Apr 2018
Leave to appeal was granted because there were reasonably arguable grounds that (a) the imprisonment sentence for careless driving may have been excessive and possibly involved impermissible double counting of facts already punished under separate offences; (b) custodial terms for related road traffic offences (charges 5–7) may be excessive for a first offender; and (c) the possession sentence may be excessive or otherwise unjustified given the narcotic quantity was described only as 'traces' and was unquantifiable, warranting potential departure from the Mok Cho Tik guideline; additionally a…
28 Sept 2006
The judge erred by treating the victim's mental incapacity and the defendant's breach of trust as separate aggravating features when they were essentially indistinguishable in the facts, resulting in double‑accounting and an excessive starting point; the proper starting point for the rape was reduced and sentences substituted accordingly.