2 Mar 2022
HARRIS v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2022] NZHC 345
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 345
- Court
- High Court
The Judge erred in giving only a 5% allowance for pre-trial custody which produced an effective credit of under one month against home detention for almost seven months remand; the appropriate default is full equivalence credit against the home detention term and a 15% s 27 discount (together with 15% guilty plea) yields an end sentence of five months' home detention; accordingly the appeal is allowed and the sentence substituted.