Ngati v R [2013] NSWCCA 203

Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Ngati v R [2013] NSWCCA 203 Hearing dates: 15 July 2013 Decision date: 30 August 2013 Before: Hoeben CJ at CL at [1] McCallum J at [2] Schmidt J at [3] Decision: 1. Leave to appeal in relation to grounds 1 and 2 refused. 2. Leave to appeal in relation to grounds 3 and 4 granted. 3. Appeal dismissed. Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW - appeal against sentence - failure to give sufficient weight to applicant's lesser role in offence - failure to give any weight to contrition - failure to give sufficient weight to parity principle for break enter offence - whether sentence was manifestly excessive - leave to be appeal refused in relation to grounds 1 and 2 - leave to appeal granted in relation to grounds 3 and 4 - appeal dismissed Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 Criminal Appeal Act 1912 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Cases Cited: Bourke v R [2010] NSWCCA 22 Dinsdale v R [2008] HCA 54; 202 CLR 321 Green v The Queen; Quinn v The Queen [2011] HCA 49 Lowe v The Queen (1984) 154 CLR 606 Lowndes v The Queen [1999] HCA 29; 195 CLR 665 R v Ahmad [2006] NSWCCA 177 R v Borkowski [2009] NSWCCA 102 R v Cornwall [2007] NSWCCA 359 R v Dib [2003] NSWCCA 117 R v Goundar [2001] NSWCCA 198 R v Simpson [2001] NSWCCA 534; 53 NSWLR 704 R v Stambolis [2006] NSWCCA 56; R v Giac [2008] NSWCCA 280 R v Winchester (1992) 58 A Crim R 345) Sutton [2004] NSWCCA 225) Zreika v R [2012] NSWCCA 44 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Johnny Ngati Regina Representation: Counsel: Ms P Wass with Mr D Robertson (Applicant) Ms V Lydiard (Crown) Solicitors: S O'Connor - Legal Aid NSW (Applicant) S Kavanagh - Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Crown) File Number(s): 2011/304308007 Publication restriction: None Decision under appeal Jurisdiction: 9101 Date of Decision: 2012-10-05 00:00:00 Before: Berman DCJ File Number(s): 2011/304308