Anae v R [2018] NSWCCA 73

Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Anae v R [2018] NSWCCA 73 Hearing dates: 19 March 2018 Date of orders: 20 April 2018 Decision date: 20 April 2018 Before: Hoeben CJ at CL at [1]; Johnson J at [2]; Price J at [3] Decision: (1) Leave to appeal granted. (2) Appeal dismissed. Catchwords: CRIME – appeal against sentence – recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm – whether approach by sentencing judge gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias – whether error in not finding special circumstances – whether error in not finding remorse – whether lesser sentence warranted Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 35(2) Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) s 12 Cases Cited: Antoun v R [2006] HCA 2; 224 ALR 51 Ellis v R [2015] NSWCCA 262 Hudd v R [2013] NSWCCA 57 Imbornone v R [2017] NSWCCA 144 Jiang v R [2010] NSWCCA 277 Kentwell v The Queen (2014) 252 CLR 601; [2014] HCA 37 Pattalis v R [2013] NSWCCA 171 R v Loveridge [2014] NSWCCA 120; (2014) 243 A Crim R 31 R v Qutami [2001] NSWCCA 353; (2001) 127 A Crim R 369 R v Sutton [2004] NSWCCA 225 Tarrant v R [2018] NSWCCA 21 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Marlo Anae (Applicant) Regina (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: M Finnane QC and N Carroll (Applicant) F Veltro (Respondent)