DPP v Mokhtari
[2020] VSCA 161
Citation 1
(Para 41)
…22 As was said recently in the case of Director of Public Prosecutions v Mokhtari [2020] VSCA 161, at [41]:…
Azzopardi v The Queen
[2011] VSCA 372
Citation 2
…31 In a later case in Azzopardi v The Queen [2011] VSCA 372, at 34, the court said that youthful offenders are immature and “lack the degree of insight, judgement and self-control of an adult.” The court also said in that case that the court should recognise the potential for young offenders to be rehabilitated be…
R v Wright
[1998] VSCA 84
Citation 3
…counsel submitted that your youth must still be a very significant sentencing consideration and he relied on the well-known case of R v Mills [1998] 4 VR 235. In that case, the court emphasised that for a youthful offender, rehabilitation is usually far more important than general deterrence. Further, it i…
Director of Public Prosecutions v Goktogan
[2022] VCC 1564
Citation 4
…ence of current sentencing practices following the introduction of the standard sentence regime. I have considered the cases including DPP v Goktogan [2022] VCC 1564. The assistance of that case is limited to the extent that in that case, the prisoner was aged 29 and the sentence followed a plea of guilty. In DPP…
Director of Public Prosecutions v Parker (a pseudonym)
[2020] VCC 583
Citation 5
…istance of that case is limited to the extent that in that case, the prisoner was aged 29 and the sentence followed a plea of guilty. In DPP v Parker [2020] VCC 583, another case referred to, the offender was aged 41 and the sentence itself was not subject to the standard sentence regime. In the case of DPP v Ami…
DPP v Amin
[2019] VCC 1756
Citation 6
…another case referred to, the offender was aged 41 and the sentence itself was not subject to the standard sentence regime. In the case of DPP v Amin [2019] VCC 1756 , the offender pleaded guilty to a rolled-up charge. He was 19 and detention in a Youth Justice sentence was available. You are now not eligible.…