28 Jun 2023
WIKI v DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS [2023] NZHC 1634
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 1634
- Court
- High Court
The Court held the starting point for driving whilst disqualified was excessive and reduced it (to about eight months), removed the one-month uplift for low-level breaches (entering convictions and discharging the breaches instead), fixed an adjusted starting point of 35 months, applied the Judge's personal factor allowances but added a discrete three-month credit for prolonged restrictive bail conditions despite minor breaches, and, having regard to youth and vulnerability and s 16 Sentencing Act, substituted a custodial sentence with nine months' home detention commencing 29 June 2023 (quas…