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CDirector of Public Prosecutions v Whitworth & Jafari

Case [2023] VCC 583

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AGLC: CDirector of Public Prosecutions v Whitworth & Jafari [2023] VCC 583
Case: [2023] VCC 583
Decision Date: 14 April 2023

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CDirector of Public Prosecutions v Whitworth & Jafari [2023] VCC 583

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Rodgerson v The Queen [No 2] [2022] VSCA 154
Citation 1 (Para 73)

…to be made out in the application of s 16A(2)(p).[26] [25] Markovic [2010] VSCA 105. [26] See Totaan [2022] NSWCCA 75 and Rogerson (No 2) [2022] VSCA 154 at [73]. 62Mr Whitworth’s counsel submitted that his being sentenced to imprisonment would have a significant effect on his young partner and infant child. I acc…
Kemal v The The Queen [2022] NSWCCA 83
Citation 2

…SCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitworth – imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 years. Jafari - imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 years and 4 months.…
Totaan v The the Queen [2022] NSWCCA 75
Citation 3

…ly hardship – Current sentencing practices. Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1914 (Cth); Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). Cases Cited: Totaan [2022] NSWCCA 75; Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Kl…
Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253
Citation 4

…2022] NSWCCA 75; Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitwort…
Worboyes v The Queen [2021] VSCA 169
Citation 5

…have assessed the utilitarian value of the guilty pleas in light of the above and mitigated the sentences accordingly. [10] Worboyes v The Queen [2021] VSCA 169, [39].…
Quah v The Queen [2021] VSCA 164
Citation 6

…ce of commercial quantity trafficking which involves a quantity representing multiples of the commercial quantity threshold.[4] [3] [2021] VSCA 164. [4] [2021] VSCA 164 at [56]. 25Although the court was there referring to Victorian law, the observation that the quantity of drugs that are trafficked or imported is…
DPP (Cth) v Omar [2019] VSCA 188
Citation 7

…atamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitworth – imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 years. Jafari - imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 year…
Gwardys v R [2019] NSWCCA 62
Citation 8 (Para 42)

…ry, without him performing the role that he did, the importation could not have been effected.[7] [7] [2019] NSWCCA 62 at [42]-[43], citations omitted.…
Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61
Citation 9

…Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitworth – imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 year…
DPP (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157
Citation 10

…Act 1995 (Cth). Cases Cited: Totaan [2022] NSWCCA 75; Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v…
R v Pham [2015] HCA 39
Citation 11

…e Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitworth – imprisonment for 9 y…
Ng v The Queen [2010] NSWCCA 232
Citation 12

…(Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (Cth) [2010] NSWCCA 232 ; DPP v Omar [2019] VSCA 188 ; Kemal v R [2022] NSWCCA 83 Sentence: Whitworth – imprisonment for 9 years; non-parole period 5 years. Jafari - imprisonment for 9 ye…
Markovic v The Queen [2010] VSCA 105
Citation 13

…mmon law,[25] there is no requirement for ‘exceptional circumstances’ to be made out in the application of s 16A(2)(p).[26] [25] Markovic [2010] VSCA 105. [26] See Totaan [2022] NSWCCA 75 and Rogerson (No 2) [2022] VSCA 154 at [73]. 62Mr Whitworth’s counsel submitted that his being sentenced to imprisonment would…
R v Mark Thomas Garvin [2009] ACTSC 87
Citation 14 (Para 19)

…as ‘couriers’ or ‘principals’ must not ‘obscure the assessment of what the offender did’.[6] [6] R v Olbrich (1999) 199 CLR 270 at [19]. 29Each of the co-offenders agreed with Ali Jafari to play the role of couriers. While they were not the principals of the drug importation business (it appears that was Ali Jafari)…
R v SC [2008] NSWCCA 29
Citation 15 (Para 48)

…tage was a recognition of the inevitable rather than evidence of contrition or a real willingness to facilitate the course of justice’.[8] [8] SC [2008] NSWCCA 29 at [48]. 33In this case the offenders entered early pleas of guilty. Their pleas are indicative of a preparedness to accept responsibility and are some e…
R v Verdins [2007] VSCA 102
Citation 16

…erdins[22] principles and I have moderated the sentence of Mr Whitworth accordingly. [21] Report of Laura Fleming dated 16 March 2023, [86]. [22] (2007) 16 VR 269. 59I have also taken into account that each offender will spend time in custody separated from family and friends. Mr Jafari will also face a considerabl…
Wong v The Queen [2001] HCA 64
Citation 17

…actices. Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1914 (Cth); Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). Cases Cited: Totaan [2022] NSWCCA 75; Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v MHK [2017] VSCA 157; Matamata v The Queen [2021] VSCA 253; R v Pham [2015] HCA 39; Klomfar v R [2019] NSWCCA 61 ; Ng v R (…
R v Wright [1998] VSCA 84
Citation 18

…t focusing on rehabilitation is to be preferred. (Rehabilitation benefits the community as well as the offender.)[14] [14] R v Mills [1998] 4 VR 235 at 241. 50However, the law makes an exception to this general principle in respect of very serious criminal offences such as the importation of significant qua…
R v Zehavi [1998] VSCA 81
Citation 19 (Para 10)

…and of doing so at the moment of entry, [they] had taken a calculated risk of suffering incarceration in a foreign prison’.[23] [23] Zehavi [1998] VSCA 81 at [10]. 60Both offenders will almost certainly be deported when their non-parole periods expire. The risk of deportation may be taken into account as a factor…

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