Keatley v The Queen

[2000] WASCA 30

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Sentencing
3. › Parity principle
4. › Co-offenders in joint enterprise
5. › Whether participants with different levels of knowledge could be punished equally
6. › Whether justifiable sense of grievance arose
1. Criminal Law
2. › Sentencing
3. › Assessment of loss
4. › Whether sentencing judge erred in assessing loss by reference to future value of stolen property rather than base valuation
1. Criminal Law
2. › Sentencing
3. › Aggravating factors
4. › Trust and general deterrence
5. › Whether trust in pearling industry relevant as aggravating factor where offenders not servants or agents of owner
1. Criminal Law
2. › Sentencing
3. › Duty to give reasons
4. › Whether sentencing judge required to specify starting point, discounts, and reasons for declining to suspend sentence

Quick Take

In a planned joint enterprise involving theft, all participants who play their part in carrying out the plan may be held equally culpable and sentenced equally, even where some participants had greater knowledge or expertise than others. A sentencing judge is not required to state in detail why a sentence of imprisonment will not be suspended.

Case Details

Citation[2000] WASCA 30

CourtWASCA

JurisdictionWestern Australia

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Cited by5

2001Dicks v FarrellWASCA 124
2001Rowlands v CapornWASCA 66
2000Higgins v RobinsonWASCA 311
2000Latham v The QueenWASCA 338
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Relies on4

1997Postiglione v RHCA 26
1988Veen v R (No 2)HCA 14
1953Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation v The Commonwealth ; (1953) 94HCA 25
1936House v RHCA 40

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