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