Director of Public Prosecutions v Dalgliesh (a pseudonym)
[2017] HCA 41
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…I impose in this case ought to be tailored to support your ongoing rehabilitation. 20As was recently made clear by the High Court in DPP v Dalgliesh [2017] HCA 41, I am required to have regard to all the factors referred to in s.5(2) of the Sentencing Act 1991, and it is a matter of judgment and discretion resi…
Akoka v The Queen
[2017] VSCA 214
Citation 2
…tinctive synthesis that I have undertaken in arriving at the sentence in this case. As recently confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Akoka v The Queen [2017] VSCA 214, an element of mercy runs hand in hand with the sentencing discretion. 22You fall for sentence as a first offender who has overcome a childhood of gr…
Roger Ward (a pseudonym)[1] v The Queen
[2017] VSCA 37
Citation 3
…other factors associated with more serious examples of the offence of rape; such as those considered by the Court of Appeal in DPP v Jurj & Miftode [2017] VSCA 37 at par 80. 12In my opinion your offence does fall at the lower end of the scale for offences of this type, although plainly less serious examples of th…
R v Simon
[2010] VSCA 66
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…as been severely disrupted by your crime. 10Rape is clearly a most serious offence, but I accept, as was observed by Justice Bongiorno in R v Simon [2010] VSCA 66, that it compromises a wide range of criminal culpability. 11Whilst your offending, as was submitted by the prosecutor, involved a serious breach of th…