15 Dec 2022
Leave to appeal was granted because there is an arguable miscarriage of justice: the High Court and District Court may have given excessive weight to a single statement about gang commitment and insufficient weight to other positive rehabilitative material and the applicant's youth, producing an outcome arguably inconsistent with co-offenders and warranting full appeal consideration.
22 May 2019
The unexplained and gross disparity between co-offenders' sentences undermined the appearance of justice; the High Court reduced the appellant's sentence from 25 to 20 months by recalibrating the burglary starting point to 18 months while retaining other uplifts and the guilty plea credit.
15 Dec 2009
Leave to appeal was dismissed because, although an unjustifiable disparity existed arising from co-offenders not being ordered to serve a minimum term, allowing the appeal would create a broader injustice by treating the applicant and co-offenders more favourably than similar offenders; the Court found no question of general or public importance and no substantial miscarriage of justice as the applicant's offending justified the imposed minimum term.