15 Nov 2019
SINGH v POLICE [2019] NZHC 2985
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 2985
- Court
- High Court
The High Court allowed the appeal, admitted the appellant's affidavits in the interests of justice, and held that the employment consequences (termination and sustained inability to obtain comparable work) amounted to direct and indirect consequences of conviction that were out of all proportion to the low-to-moderate gravity of the offending when assessed with mitigating factors (early plea, no prior convictions, immediate assistance to victim, completion of rehabilitation programme and restorative justice); conviction was quashed and appellant discharged without conviction under s106 Senten…