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The High Court increased the sentence for intoxicated dangerous driving causing grievous hurt, holding the offence was at the highest end of seriousness and that a full guilty plea discount was unwarranted.
The High Court dismissed an appeal against a 15-month driving disqualification for dangerous driving, holding the sentence was not manifestly excessive.
The High Court held that the Wu Zhi Yong sentencing framework guided careless-driving sentencing under the Road Traffic Act and reduced a manifestly inadequate fine to two weeks’ imprisonment.
The High Court reduced a dangerous-driving disqualification from 15 months to 12 months, holding that the retest threshold should not drive sentencing.
The High Court increased a dangerous-driving sentence from three to five months’ imprisonment, holding that the respondent’s deliberate five-minute chase showed high culpability.
The Court of Appeal held that rashness in road traffic offences may be found where the accused actually knew of the risk or where the risk was so obvious that it should have been appreciated.
The High Court dismissed the appeal against convictions for dangerous driving and grievous hurt, but reduced the total sentence from nine months to four months.
The High Court held that dangerous driving is judged objectively, upheld the first conviction, and amended the second charge from rash act to dangerous driving.
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