Regina v Waterman

[2000] NSWCCA 29

NSW Court of Criminal Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal
3. › Sentence
4. › Disparity
5. › Co-offenders
6. › Whether justifiable sense of grievance arising from disparity between sentences imposed on co-offenders for same offence
7. › Whether sentence should be reduced to achieve parity even where co-offender's sentence appeared inadequate

Quick Take

The parity principle requires appellate intervention where co-offenders receive significantly disparate sentences for the same offence and no distinguishing feature exists between them, even where the co-offender's lighter sentence appears inadequate. A sentence that is otherwise appropriate may be reduced to avoid a justifiable sense of grievance.