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New Zealand Case Law

Historic offences
  • 29 Nov 2018

    R v WILSON [2018] NZHC 3117

    Citation
    [2018] NZHC 3117
    Court
    High Court

    Judge assessed that if the present 1972–1980 charges had been before Heron J in 1996 the starting point would have been increased by approximately one third (2 years 8 months); allowed 4 months reduction for age, rejected remorse and delay as discounts, declined home detention as inappropriate, and imposed concurrent sentences producing an effective sentence of 2 years 4 months imprisonment.