16 Nov 2017
DICKSON v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZHC 2815
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2815
- Court
- High Court
Because leave to apply for home detention had been raised before the sentencing Judge but was not addressed in the sentencing notes, the Judge erred; the Judge was required to consider and expressly determine leave to apply for home detention as part of the s16(2) assessment. The appeal was allowed in part by granting leave to apply for home detention conditional on the availability of full-time supervised residential care suitable to address the appellant's drug addiction and compliance risk; the custodial sentence otherwise stands.