29 Jul 2022
MASON v NZ POLICE [2022] NZHC 1845
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1845
- Court
- High Court
The appeal is allowed because the sentencing Judge erred in failing to account for approximately three months' remand custody; the correct approach is to treat remand credit as a one‑for‑one deduction from the term of home detention (applied after commuting the end imprisonment term to home detention) as a starting point in an evaluative exercise; applying a full three‑month credit reduces the home detention sentence from ten to seven months and no factors warranted reducing that credit.