Australia, April 12 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 12:
1. MITCHELMORE JA: The appellant, Jack New, sought leave to appeal against his convictions for an offence contrary to s 61KC(a) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), and an offence contrary s 61I of the Crimes Act. He also sought leave to appeal against the aggregate sentence imposed on him in the District Court for those two offences and a further offence of perverting the course of justice, contrary to s 319 of the Crimes Act, to which he entered a plea of guilty.
2. The offences under ss 61KC(a) and 61I of the Crimes Act involved different complainants. The indictment charged that:
1) between 1 March 2019 and 5 April 2019, the...