New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Community supervision

Legal area

Court

29 Sept 2022

R v SINGER [2022] NZHC 2488

Citation

[2022] NZHC 2488
Court

High Court

Starting point of 18 months' imprisonment for accessory after the fact to possession for supply of methamphetamine was appropriate given seriousness and deliberate assistance; after a 10% uplift for prior convictions and discounts of 20% for guilty plea, 10% for rehabilitation and credit of nine months for EM bail, the appropriate final outcome was 12 months' community supervision rather than imprisonment or intensive supervision because statutory criteria for intensive supervision were not met and further detention was unnecessary.
22 Jul 2019

RUA v R [2019] NZHC 1730

Citation

[2019] NZHC 1730
Court

High Court

The High Court found no error in the sentencing judge's assessment of seriousness or in the exercise of sentencing discretion; the offending was moderately serious in the context of related confrontations, the credit for a late guilty plea and for restrictive bail was appropriately limited (guilty plea discount assessed near 7% and curfew credit modest), and the final sentence of three months' community detention plus six months' supervision was within the proper evaluative range; appeal dismissed.