HT v. The Queen & Anor
Case No.
S123/2019
Case Information
Lower Court Judgment
17/07/2017 Supreme Court of New South Wales (Court of Criminal Appeal) (Hoeben CJ at CL, R A Hulme & Garling JJ)
unreported decision
Catchwords
Criminal law – Procedural fairness – Public interest immunity – Where appellant pleaded guilty to five counts of obtaining money by deception and six counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception – Where Crown appeal resulted in longer sentence of imprisonment – Where appellant, as respondent to Crown appeal, was denied access to evidence admitted in sentencing proceedings which provided basis for reduction in sentence – Whether appellant was denied procedural fairness at hearing of Crown appeal against sentence by being refused access to evidence regarding her assistance to authorities on basis of public interest immunity – Whether Court of Criminal Appeal erred in exercising its discretion in s 5D of Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW) to vary sentence imposed on appellant.
Documents
12/04/2019 Hearing (SLA, Sydney)
24/04/2019 Notice of appeal
31/05/2019 Written submissions (Appellant)
31/05/2019 Chronology (Appellant)
25/06/2019 Hearing (Single Justice, Sydney)
28/06/2019 Written submissions (Second Respondent)
03/07/2019 Written submissions (First Respondent)
26/07/2019 Reply (Appellant)
10/09/2019 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra)
13/11/2019 Judgment (Judgment summary)