11 May 1999
The court found the judge had miscalculated the discount for the guilty plea on the robbery charge and reduced that sentence from three years and four months to two years and eight months; other sentences were left unaltered and the immigration sentence remains consecutive, resulting in a reduced total term.
12 Aug 1998
Because the trial judge failed to give any reasons for awarding a smaller-than-customary discount for the guilty plea, the Court of Appeal applied the customary one-third discount and reduced the sentence to three years and four months imprisonment.
18 Apr 1997
The Court held that an appropriate one-third discount for an early plea is the norm and that where a trial judge departs from that discount he must state reasons; absent any rational basis given here, the full one-third discount should have been applied and the appeal succeeds.
9 Oct 1984
The appeal was allowed to the extent of substituting three years' imprisonment for four because the applicant had a justifiable grievance: the co-accused was the prime mover and had received a heavier sentence, and the trial judge's inadequate reasons compounded the applicant's grievance, justifying reduction of sentence on appeal.