9 Dec 2019
TOPIA v NZ POLICE [2019] NZHC 3235
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 3235
- Court
- High Court
Extension of time was granted; cumulative sentences were appropriate because the assaults and driving offending were different in kind and separated in time; the sentencing judge erred in the quantum of uplift for prior convictions and offending on bail, and the guilty plea discount was insufficient; recalculation with a combined starting point of 18 months, uplifts of 3 months (history) and 2 months (on bail), and a 20% guilty plea discount produced an overall sentence of 18 months which was substituted for the original 22 months.