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Patricia Lenine Mabel Walsh v The Queen - SC 54/2006

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Summary

Criminal – appeal against convictions for forgery – appellant used fax machine to transmit, from overseas, copies of false documents to persons in New Zealand – whether a facsimile copy of a false document is itself a false document – Crimes Act 1961, former ss 263, 264 (ss 255, 256 as amended 2003) CA 208/05 26 June 2006

Result

Leave to appeal granted.
1 September 2006
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The 34 counts of forgery are amended, pursuant to s 335 of the Crimes Act 1961, to counts of uttering. The sentences on those counts are affirmed. The appeal is dismissed.
19 December 2006

Related Documents

Leave judgment - leave granted — WALSH v R SC 54/2006 [1 September 2006] (PDF 12 KB)

Substantive judgment — WALSH v R SC 54/2006 [19 December 2006] (PDF 202 KB)

Additional Information

Transcript Hearing date : 8 November 2006

Substantive judgment / Media release WALSH v R SC 54/2006 [19 December 2006

Judgment appealed from

The Queen v Walsh [2006] NZCA 140 26 June 2006