Max John Beckham v The Queen - SC 18/2013

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Summary

Criminal Appeal – New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 – Whether the Court of Appeal wrongly stated and wrongly applied the test for sentence reduction as a remedy for police misconduct amounting to a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.[2012] NZCA 603  CA 608/2011

Result

Leave to appeal is granted. The approved ground of appeal is:
Should the appellant have received a reduction in his sentence for the breach of his rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990?  
1 April 2014
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A The application for leave to appeal against conviction is dismissed.
B The appeal against sentence is dismissed.
7 July 2015

Related Documents

Leave judgment - leave granted — BECKHAM v R [2013] NZSC 70 [16 July 2013] (PDF 11 KB)

Supreme court decision — MAX JOHN BECKHAM v R [2015] NZSC 98 [7 July 2015 (PDF 373 KB)

Additional Information

Transcript

Hearing date : 1 April 2014

Hearing date : 3 and 4 March 2015

Elias CJ, William Young, Glazebrook, Arnold, O’Regan JJ