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Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Ingram [2025] NSWCCA 103
In this decision the CCA has said that a person procured by the accused need not be ‘innocent’ before the principal can be found guilty of procuring them to commit the offence. The Court also examined the obligations of the Crown to provide particulars more generally for indictments.
McGregor v R [2024] NSWCCA 200
In this case a five-judge bench of the CCA, in a unanimous decision, has considered the correct approach to discounts in federal sentencing cases involving mandatory minimum sentences. The Court also held that aggregate sentences remain available for this category of federal sentences when imposed i
Chan v R [2023] NSWCCA 206
For anybody worried that it wasn’t already sufficiently complicated to sentence federal offenders, fear not, because this decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal (‘CCA’) provides that when sentencing a federal offender, a court applying the three-step test in deciding whether to impose an Intensive
Kabir v R [2020] NSWCCA 139
The Court of Criminal Appeal (‘CCA’) has found that requiring an offender to verbally answer whether they want offences taken into account on a s 16BA schedule would be a triumph of form over substance; it should usually be enough in Commonwealth matters (at least) if their lawyer confirms the offen
Purves v R [2019] NSWCCA 227
In this decision the CCA has held that it is essential to the procedure in s 16BA of the Commonwealth Crimes Act that the offender is actually asked, by the Court, that they want the offences taken into account on sentence.
Xiao v R [2018] NSWCCA 4
Overturning a NSW authority which has stood for more than a decade, the Court of Criminal Appeal (‘CCA’) has determined that when sentencing for Commonwealth matters, it is permissible to take into account the utilitarian value of a plea of guilty.