1 May 2018
BATE v R [2018] NZHC 882
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 882
- Court
- High Court
The Judge did not err in fact or law. Given the appellant's repeated breaches of community-based sentences, prior 'final warning', and the need for finality, it was open to the sentencing Judge to refuse a lengthy adjournment and to reject intensive supervision; the Judge was entitled to start from imprisonment and impose a cumulative sentence of six months and one week which was within the available range. Leave to apply for home detention if a suitable address becomes available was appropriately reserved.