6 Apr 2023
SANSON v MINISTRY OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES [2023] NZHC 780
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 780
- Court
- High Court
The sentencing Judge properly assessed and rejected additional discounts for remorse, culpability and personal factors, but erred in concluding imprisonment was the only way to achieve sentencing purposes because an indefinite disqualification from farming combined with home detention would adequately achieve accountability, denunciation, deterrence and protection; the one year ten months' imprisonment was manifestly excessive and was substituted with nine months' home detention.