7 Oct 2013
BLAND v R [2013] NZSC 93
- Citation
- [2013] NZSC 93
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was refused because the matter, while of general importance, was unsuitable in the present case: the applicant did not raise assistance before the Court of Appeal, his assistance was belated and apparently self-serving, it was not essential to prosecutions so any discount would be modest, and there was no appearance of a substantial miscarriage of justice warranting Supreme Court intervention.
- Sentence discount for assistance to authorities
- Recall of appellate judgment
- New evidence and unsafe conviction
- Procedural bars to raising new grounds