R v Stephensen

[2025] QCA 156

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal and new trial
3. › Appeal against sentence
4. › Grounds for interference
5. › Generally
6. › Application to add additional ground on appeal
7. › Compassionate grounds based on post-sentence changes in domestic arrangements
8. › Whether evidence of events after sentence admissible on appeal
9. › Whether leave to add ground and adduce evidence should be granted
10. › Criminal Code (Qld), s 668E
1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal and new trial
3. › Appeal against sentence
4. › Grounds for interference
5. › Sentence manifestly excessive or inadequate
6. › Dangerous operation of motor vehicle causing grievous bodily harm
7. › Deliberately dangerous conduct
8. › Leaving scene before police arrived
9. › Sole carer of children
10. › Whether sentence manifestly excessive

Quick Take

Post-sentence changes in domestic care arrangements for an offender's children, where those arrangements were known at sentencing, do not constitute a proper ground for reducing a sentence on appeal.

Case Details

Citation[2025] QCA 156

CourtQCA

JurisdictionQueensland

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Cited by1

1995R v ChinfatQCA 508

Relies on4

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2022R v ColegateQCA 148
2016R v BrowneQCA 111
1996R v ManiadisQCA 242

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