Squibb v Department of Social Welfare - [1992] 3 NZLR 720

Criminal law — Sentence — Seven charges of obtaining unemployment benefit by false pretence — Maximum possible sentence of 12 months' imprisonment on each charge — Criminal Justice Act requiring full-time custodial sentence not to be imposed except in special circumstances of offence and/or offender — Whether special circumstances existed — Criminal Justice Act 1985, s 6.