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Samuels v The Queen
[2019] VSCA 14
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…quired to have regard to current sentencing practices. The prosecution referred the court to the cases of Samuels v The Queen [2019] VSCA 14 and Johns v The Queen [2016] VSCA 97 as illustrating current sentencing practices and as being comparable. I see Samuels as distinguishable given the greater extent of viole…
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Johns (a Pseudonym) v The Queen
[2016] VSCA 97
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…encing practices. The prosecution referred the court to the cases of Samuels v The Queen [2019] VSCA 14 and Johns v The Queen [2016] VSCA 97 as illustrating current sentencing practices and as being comparable. I see Samuels as distinguishable given the greater extent of violence in that offending. 45I regard the…
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R v Vardouniotis
[2007] VSCA 62
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…, I regard your prospects of rehabilitation as good. 37On the plea the prosecution accepted that limbs 5 and 6 of R v Verdins [2007] VSCA 62 were engaged. A term of imprisonment will weigh more heavily on you than a person without your physical/psychological conditions and there is a risk that your condition may…
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DPP v Short
[2006] VSCA 120
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(Para 42)
…abilitated into society. 49In sentencing for the crime of rape, denunciation is a very important sentencing consideration. In the case of DPP v Short [2006] VSCA 120 at [42] the Court of Appeal said: 'Those who are minded to engage in such behaviour and exercise either their physical power or that arising from the…