The Court of Appeal resentenced an offender for sexual penetration of a child in WCB v The Queen [2010] VSCA 230. The Court's own summary of the case can be read here.The offender had been sentenced to a non-parole period of six years, which was reduced to four. The case would be unremarkable but for …
Month: September 2010
Savage v The Queen [2010] VSCA 220: Undoing the deal
Edit: A similar 'undoing the deal' was sought in Nguyen v The Queen [2010] VSCA 244. The Court of Appeal decided that cultivation and possession charges were not duplicitous as they related to different cannabis. The Queen v Stemnkovic [2009] VSCA 185 was similar.But in R v Bidmade [2009] VSCA 90 the Court of Appeal …
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Rolling stops
Someone told me last week that there's no definition of stop in the Road Rules Dictionary. Edit: That same friend has now sent me this:Strictly speaking, she's wrong. There is a definition but it's an inclusive and exclusive one, not exhaustive, and intended to apply to parking. It reads,stop, in Part 12 and for a …
DPP v Kypri [2010] VSC 400 — don't forget the sub-section!
Edit: The Court of Appeal have handed down their decision in Kypri. See our discussion of it here. I was nearly going to title this post Oops!...I did it again but thought better of it. DPP v Kypri was a DPP appeal against a dismissal of a charge of refusing to accompany for a breath …
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DPP v Kypri [2010] VSC 400 — don’t forget the sub-section!
Edit: The Court of Appeal have handed down their decision in Kypri. See our discussion of it here. I was nearly going to title this post Oops!...I did it again but thought better of it. DPP v Kypri was a DPP appeal against a dismissal of a charge of refusing to accompany for a breath …
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