Maher El Masri v Environment Protection Authority

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Appeal against severity of sentence
  4. › Environmental offences
  5. › Unlawful transporting and disposal of asbestos waste
  6. › Sentencing principles on appeal
  7. › Instinctive synthesis
  8. › Objective seriousness
  9. › Subjective circumstances
  10. › Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW), ss 143(1)(a), 144AAA(1), 241
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Aggravating and mitigating factors
  4. › Whether offences part of planned or organised criminal activity
  5. › Whether reckless state of mind established
  6. › Previous conviction
  7. › Good prospects of rehabilitation
  8. › Remorse
  9. › Guilty pleas
  10. › Limited capacity to pay fine
  11. › Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), ss 3A, 21A
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Parity principle
  4. › Co-offenders charged with different offences
  5. › Whether disparity in penalties gives rise to justifiable sense of grievance
  6. › Totality principle
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Criminal proceedings
  4. › Whether pre-commencement investigation costs are 'professional costs'
  5. › Whether s 215 of Criminal Procedure Act 1986 governs costs on appeal to Land and Environment Court
  6. › Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW), ss 211, 215(1)(a)
  7. › Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act 2001 (NSW), ss 49(2), 49(4), 71

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