Magistrates - Procedure - Orders and convictions - Sentencing - Imposition of fines - Duty of court to ascertain defendant's financial circumstances - Failure to give proper consideration to converting fines to CSOs.
Sentencing Act 1997 (Tas), s47(2).
Broughton v Lowe (1979) Tas R NC7; Kaye v Vagg(No 2) (1984) 11 A Crim R 127; Briant v Bessell (1994) 74 A Crim R 204; Reeves v Ranson [1999] TASSC 52, followed.
