Narrier v Director of Public Prosecutions (WA)

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Summary conviction penalty
  4. › Stealing offences
  5. › Whether summary conviction penalty of fine only applies where value of property does not exceed $1,000 and offence committed in circumstances of aggravation
  6. › Criminal Code (WA), ss 378, 426(1), 426(2), 426(4)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Jurisdiction of Magistrates Court
  4. › Power to impose imprisonment
  5. › Whether magistrate had power to impose imprisonment where summary conviction penalty limited to fine
  6. › Criminal Code (WA), s 5, s 426(4)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Statutory interpretation
  3. › Criminal Code (WA)
  4. › Relationship between offence-creating provision and penalty provisions
  5. › Whether items of s 378 create separate offences or circumstances of aggravation for single offence
  6. › Criminal Code (WA), s 378
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Intermediate appellate court
  4. › Not bound by single judge decisions of same court
  5. › Whether Court of Appeal required to follow construction adopted by single judge in Dukes v Barrett

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