CRIMINAL LAW - appeal -sentence - Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; appeal by - two offences - Criminal Code (Cth); s 141.1(1) - bribery of Commonwealth public official - pleaded guilty - head sentences of 3 years and 3 months - wholly concurrent - single non-parole period of 1 year 8 months
CRIMINAL LAW - appeal -sentence - whether the sentencing judge erred in imposing wholly concurrent head sentences - principle of totality - material differences between the two offences - particular of manifest inadequacy
CRIMINAL LAW - appeal -sentence - whether the sentencing judge erred by imposing a single non-parole period of 1 year and 8 months - whether the single non-parole period was of a severity appropriate in all of the circumstances of the offence - Crimes Act 1914 (Cth); s 16A(1) - particular of manifest inadequacy
CRIMINAL LAW - appeal -sentence - whether the discount afforded for assistance given to authorities was excessive - combined discount for guilty plea and assistance of 60% - whether within discretion of sentencing judge - whether reasonably proportionate to criminality involved - assistance of a very high order - combined discount ought not to have exceeded 50%
Case Details
Citation[2014] NSWCCA 176
CourtNSWCCA
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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