5 Aug 2021
MCGILL v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2021] NZHC 2020
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2020
- Court
- High Court
Leave to appeal was granted but the appeal is dismissed. The High Court held the District Court did not err: the judge's assessment that the offending was relatively serious and the imposition of five months' community detention as the most restrictive community-based sentence permissible under s 94 was within range and not manifestly excessive given the offender's driving history, breaches of court orders, the probation recommendations, and the objectives of denunciation and deterrence; the delay in sentencing did not render the sentence excessive because the delay was connected to steps nec…