MARINELLIS v REGINA [2006] NSWCCA 307

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: MARINELLIS v REGINA [2006] NSWCCA 307 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

HEARING DATE(S): 26 April 2006

JUDGMENT DATE: 22 September 2006

JUDGMENT OF: McColl JA at 1; Adams J at 14; Latham J at 69

DECISION: 1. Leave to appeal granted; 2. the appeals in respect of the sentences imposed in respect of counts 1 to 9 and 11 are dismissed; 3. the appeal in respect of count 10 is allowed to the extent that the non-parole period is quashed and substituted therefor is a non-parole period of two years, four months and one week commencing 31 May 2005 and ending on 6 October 2007.

CATCHWORDS: Sentence - fraud - importance of objective circumstances - perverting course of justice

Crimes Act 1900 ss178BB, 319 LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 ss21A, 44 Criminal Appeal Act 1912 s6(3) Criminal Legislation Amendment Bill, Second Reading Speech, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates, (Hansard) 30 November 2001, vol 289

Georgiou [2005] NSWCCA 237 MM [2002] NSWCCA 431 McCabe [2006] NSWCCA 220 Nightingale [2005] NSWCCA 147 Pearce v The Queen (1998) CLR 610 CASES CITED: R v Itamua [2000] NSWCCA 502 R v Janceski [2005] NSWCCA 288; (2005) 44 MVR 328 R v Pangallo (1991) 56 A Crim R 441 R v Rogerson [1992] HCA 25; (1992) 174 CLR 268 R v Thomson and Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 R v Wilson [2005] NSWCCA 219 Taouk v R (1992) 65 A Crim R 387