5 Aug 2019
CAMMISH v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2019] NZHC 1887
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 1887
- Court
- High Court
The Court allowed the appeal because the District Court overstated the gravity of the offending by relying on unverified regional policing assertions and irrelevant material, and failed adequately to account for significant mitigating factors (low total value, opportunistic short course of conduct, prompt reparation, guilty pleas, remorse). The direct and indirect consequences of conviction (including likely immigration/travel impediments) were held to be out of all proportion to the low gravity of the offending; convictions and sentences were quashed and appellants discharged without convict…