5 Apr 2019
PEPA v MINISTRY OF BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND EMPLOYMENT [2019] NZHC 704
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 704
- Court
- High Court
The sentencing judge did not err and the combined sentence of three months' community detention plus 140 hours' community work was within the permissible range given the seriousness and aggravating features of deliberate non‑compliance; there was insufficient evidence that depression causally contributed to offending so no mitigation on that basis; the costs order was quashed because the judge gave no reasons and there was no just and reasonable basis to impose $2,000 against a legally aided, impecunious offender and the regulatory maxima were not observed.