Dimovski v The Queen
[2022] VSCA 6
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…[24] Those cases are Quah v The Queen (2021) 290 A Crim R 136; [2021] VSCA 164; DPP v Kumas; Kumas v DPP [2021] VSCA 215; and Dimovski v The Queen [2022] VSCA 6. 167I have already referred to a number of statements of general principle made by the Court of Appeal in relation to the inherent seriousness of the o…
DPP v Kumas
[2021] VSCA 215
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…recedents. Statements of general principle [24] Those cases are Quah v The Queen (2021) 290 A Crim R 136; [2021] VSCA 164; DPP v Kumas; Kumas v DPP [2021] VSCA 215; and Dimovski v The Queen [2022] VSCA 6. 167I have already referred to a number of statements of general principle made by the Court of Appeal in relat…
Worboyes v The Queen
[2021] VSCA 169
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…ive an increased sentencing discount as compared to that which would have been afforded in pre-pandemic times.[13] [13] See Worboyes v The Queen [2021] VSCA 169. 103I consider you to be genuinely remorseful for your criminal conduct, and in particular for involving yourself in the insidious drug trade. It is not j…
Quah v The Queen
[2021] VSCA 164
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…est message to would-be traffickers, and to sentencing courts, about how sternly large-scale drug trafficking was to be punished.[18] [18] Quah v The Queen (2021) 290 A Crim R 136, 151 [57] citing Maxwell ACJ in Arico v The Queen (2018) 272 A Crim R 450 at [317]. 121By its very nature therefore, any offence of trafficking…
Rahmani v The Queen
[2021] VSCA 51
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…prisonment applies) would 'likewise be expected to increase'. That argument was accepted by the court in Quah.[28] [25] (2017) 268 A Crim R 1. [26] [2021] VSCA 51. [27](2021) 290 A Crim R 136; [2021] VSCA 164. [28] Ibid, at [51]-[57]. 170Those statements by the Court of Appeal are, and were intended to be, of ass…
Brown v the Queen
[2019] VSCA 286
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…nd, it does not otherwise affect the matters which the court may, or must, take into account in sentencing. [21] (2019) 59 VR 462; [2019] VSCA 286. See also Quah v The Queen [2021] VSCA 164, at [20]-[21] (The Court). 146 Brown and a number of subsequent cases have noted that the standard sentence provisions do not…
Akoka v The Queen
[2017] VSCA 214
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…ugh it is not as punitive as time spent on remand in gaol and any mitigatory allowance should not be undertaken as a pure mathematical exercise. [17] [2017] VSCA 214. 107It is to your credit that you successfully completed that program and abided by strict bail conditions over a significant period, all the while s…
Arico v The Queen
[2018] HCASL 360
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…sternly large-scale drug trafficking was to be punished.[18] [18] Quah v The Queen (2021) 290 A Crim R 136, 151 [57] citing Maxwell ACJ in Arico v The Queen (2018) 272 A Crim R 450 at [317]. 121By its very nature therefore, any offence of trafficking in not less than a LCQ, must be treated as a very serious offence. Parlia…
DPP v Yuksek
[2022] VCC 683
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…ure of substance containing methylamphetamine. [6] This weight relates to a mixture of substance containing MDMA. [7] [2022] VCC 683, a copy of which was tendered as exhibit B on the plea. 19As for you, Mr Natale, it is put that you worked for Khodher by delivering cash and drugs, by receiving cash for the sale o…