Wong v R

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,Gaudron,Gummow,Hayne JJ,Kirby J,Callinan J
Judgment Date15 November 2001
Neutral Citation2001-1115 HCA D,[2001] HCA 64
Docket NumberS193/2000
CourtHigh Court
Date15 November 2001
    • This document is available in original version only for vLex customers

      View this document and try vLex for 7 days
    • TRY VLEX
827 cases
  • R v Hills, 2020 ABCA 263
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 10 July 2020
    ...in sentencing, essential features of any legitimate sentencing regime. Just the opposite is the case”) & Wong v. The Queen, [2001] HCA 64, ¶ 6; 207 C.L.R. 584, 591 per Gleeson, C. J. (“Like cases should be treated in like manner. The administration of criminal justice......
  • R v Hilbach, 2020 ABCA 332
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 18 September 2020
    ...should always be an exercise involving comparison of the seriousness of the offence to other offences”). [24] Wong v. The Queen, [2001] HCA 64, ¶ 6; 207 C.L.R. 584, 591 per Gleeson, C.J. (“The outcome of discretionary decision-making can never be uniform, but it ought to depend as little as......
  • R v SLW, 2018 ABCA 235
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 29 June 2018
    ...that two offenders in identical life circumstances who commit identical crime should receive identical sentences”); Wong v. The Queen, [2001] HCA 64, ¶6; 207 C.L.R. 584, 591 per Gleeson, C.J. (“Like cases should be treated in like manner. The administration of criminal justice works as a sy......
  • R. v. Vigon (D.M.), (2016) 612 A.R. 292
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 24 March 2016
    ...agreement that the criminal justice system has failed to remedy manifest inequities in the sentencing process"); Wong v. The Queen, [2001] HCA 64, ¶ 10; 207 C.L.R. 584, 593 ("If there is ... inconsistency [in sentences], public confidence in the value of discretionary sentencing will suffer......
  • Request a trial to view additional results
12 books & journal articles
  • Due Process, Judicial Power and Chapter III in the New High Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 32-2, June 2004
    • 1 June 2004
    ...153 Ibid 352–3 (emphasis in third and fourth sentences added). 154 At the end of the quoted passage, he referred to Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584, 608 (Gaudron, Gummow and Hayne JJ). 155 Cameron (2002) 209 CLR 339, 368. 156 Ibid 369. 157 Ibid 353. 158 See also Milat v The Queen (2004)......
  • The Paradox of Parity in Sentencing in Australia: The Pursuit of Equal Justice That Highlights the Futility of Consistency in Sentencing
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 77-5, October 2013
    • 1 October 2013
    ...principle of sentencing law that there is no single, correctsentence in a particular case. On the contrary, there is a ‘sentencing53 (2001) 76 ALJR 79.54 Wong vR (2001) 76 ALJR 79 at 94, per Gaudron, Gummow and Hayne JJ.55 See the dicta of McHugh J who notes the diff‌iculties of any ‘attemp......
  • SINGAPORE ACADEMY OF LAW ANNUAL LECTURE 2013 —“THE RULE OF LAW AS A MANY COLOURED DREAM COAT”
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...Picture House Ltd v Wednesbury Corp[1948] 1 KB 223 at 229. 58Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v Li[2013] HCA 18 at [72]. 59 (2001) 207 CLR 584. 60 Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584 at 608, [65]. 61 Green v The Queen (2011) 244 CLR 462 at 473, per French CJ and Crennan and Kiefel J......
  • Choice of Law and the Australian Constitution: Locating the Debate
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 33-1, March 2005
    • 1 March 2005
    ...and Toohey JJ), 502 (Gaudron J); Nicholas v The Queen (1998) 193 CLR 173, 208–9 [74] Gaudron J. 130 (2002) 209 CLR 339, 352 [44]. 131 (2001) 207 CLR 584, 608 [65]. 132 Cameron v The Queen (2002) 209 CLR 339, 352 [44] (emphasis in original). 2005 Choice of Law and the Australian Constitution......
  • Request a trial to view additional results

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT