Charbaji v R [2011] NSWCCA 181

Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Charbaji v R [2011] NSWCCA 181 Hearing dates: 9 August 2011 Decision date: 11 August 2011 Before: Whealy JA at 1 Buddin J at 2 Harrison J at 39 Decision: Leave to appeal granted Appeal dismissed Catchwords: Criminal law - appeal against sentence - offence of supplying cocaine - whether error in consideration of prior record - whether error in assessment of objective gravity of offence - whether error in use of fact that offence committed on conditional liberty - whether sentence was manifestly excessive Legislation Cited: Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Cases Cited: R v Cage [2006] NSWCCA 304 Corby v R [2010] NSWCCA 146 Khoury v R [2011] NSWCCA 118 Sivell v R [2009] NSWCCA 286 Locke v R [2010] NSWCCA 296 Mansour v R [2011] NSWCCA 28 R v Walker [2005] NSWCCA 109 Doolan v R (2006) 160 A Crim R 54 Veen v The Queen (No 2) (1988) 164 CLR 465 R v Price [2005] NSWCCA 285 R v McNaughton (2006) 66 NSWLR 566 Frigiani v R [2007] NSWCCA 81 Chaplin v R (2006) 160 A Crim R 85 Lee v R [2011] NSWCCA 169 R v Mills (2005) 154 A Crim R 40 Van Can Ha v R [2008] NSWCCA 141 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Safwan Charbaji (Applicant) Regina (Respondent) Representation: P Lange (Applicant) T Smith (Respondent/Crown) Lawyers Corp Pty Ltd (Applicant) S Kavanagh (Respondent/Crown) File Number(s): 2009/200262 Decision under appeal Date of Decision: 2010-08-27 00:00:00 Before: Zahra DCJ File Number(s): 2009/200262