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New Zealand Case Law

Dishonest use of documents (card fraud)
  • 26 Apr 2017

    TOLUONO v POLICE [2017] NZHC 809

    Citation
    [2017] NZHC 809
    Court
    High Court

    The Court held the sentencing Judge's burglary starting point was at the top of the available range but within it; however two uplifts (for the dishonest use of documents and for related theft/receiving) were excessive when assessed against the totality principle. Proper application of totality required reduction of those uplifts, warranting substitution of the sentence with recalculation: starting point 24 months (including bail uplift), uplift 19 months for remaining offending, uplift 6 months for prior convictions, and 20% discount for guilty pleas, producing a substituted sentence of thre…