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Scott v NPQ[2022] QCA 98

Reported at (2022) 10 QR 803
CITATION: Scott v NPQ [2022] QCA 98
JUDGE(S): Sofronoff P, McMurdo JA, Boddice J
DELIVERED ON: 27 May 2022
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Editorial Notes

  • Published Case Name:

    Scott v NPQ

  • Shortened Case Name:

    Scott v NPQ

  • Reported Citation:

    (2022) 10 QR 803

  • MNC:

    [2022] QCA 98

  • Court:

    QCA

  • Judge(s):

    Sofronoff P, McMurdo JA, Boddice J

  • Date:

    27 May 2022

  • Selected for Reporting:

    Editor's Note

Litigation History

EventCitation or FileDateNotes
Primary Judgment[2021] QSC 32106 Dec 2021Application under Crime and Corruption Act 2001 (Qld) s 199; witness refused to answer Presiding Officer’s questions, impeding murder investigation; contempt proved; contemnor unwilling to purge; contemnor sentenced to 1.5 months’ imprisonment, taking into account 8.5 months spent on remand for unrelated offences, which were still pending: Williams J.
Appeal Determined (QCA)[2022] QCA 98 (2022) 10 QR 803; (2022) 298 A Crim R 45127 May 2022Presiding Officer’s appeal from [2021] QSC 321; sentence of 10 months’ imprisonment substituted; pre-sentence custody may be taken into account in sentencing for contempt, but primary judge erred in failing to consider coercive element of punishment and general deterrence, resulting in sentence vindicating not Commission’s authority but contemnor’s challenge thereto, which had referred to his already being incarcerated on remand: Sofronoff P (McMurdo JA and Boddice J agreeing).

Appeal Status

Appeal Determined (QCA)

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