19 Dec 2022
ROWE v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2022] NZHC 3549
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 3549
- Court
- High Court
The High Court allowed the appeal and ordered the three‑month sentence to be served concurrently with the existing sentence because imposing the three months cumulatively converted the notional total into a long‑term sentence and extended the appellant's release date by 15 months, which was wholly out of proportion to the gravity of the overall offending and breached the totality principle; the District Court had erred by failing to address this effect.