New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Theft of fuel

Legal area

Court

10 Oct 2023

PU v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2023] NZHC 2838

Citation

[2023] NZHC 2838
Court

High Court

The appeal was allowed because the High Court found the District Court sentence infringed the totality principle; the court restructured concurrent and cumulative sentences, imposed specified three month cumulative terms for earlier incidents, adjusted concurrency on the 25 January charges, and reduced the global end sentence to 22 months imprisonment as the only sentence proportionate to the aggregate offending.
11 Oct 2019

SUNNEX v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2019] NZHC 2589

Citation

[2019] NZHC 2589
Court

High Court

The High Court held the District Court's starting points and overall sentencing exercise were within the appropriate range given the scale, persistence and premeditation of the offending, the limited prospect of meaningful reparation, and the timing of the guilty pleas; no manifestly excessive error was demonstrated and the appeal was dismissed.