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\par Appellate Jurisdiction
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960\charrsid13436424 Appeal No. 21 of 1978
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960\charrsid13436424 s/o RAM CHANDRA
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960\charrsid13436424 On the 14th February 1978 at Suva Magistrates 
Court the appellant was convicted on his own plea of six offences of fraudulent falsification of accounts contrary to section 340(1) of the Penal Code, and upon imposing a sentence of fifteen months' imprisonment on each count concurrent the trial Magistr
ate also took into consideration six additional o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960 ffences of a similar nature.
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\par It was urged by counsel for the appellant that as restitution is being made a suspended sentence would be justified; and this submission was supported by counsel for the Crown.
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960\charrsid13436424 Restitution may be taken into account, as may a plea of guilty, as showing remorse on the part of the offender justifying some reduction in sentence. }{
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can never justify a complete departure from the type of sentence which the offences warrant. There is not one law, for the rich and one for the poor.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960 
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\par Thi}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960 s was not an isolated incident,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11744960\charrsid13436424  for which a suspended sentence may have been appropriate. The appellant,}{
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 a bank officer, abused his position of trust by engaging in a planned course of criminal conduct involving over $2,500 and extending over a period of nine months; and in such circumstances an immediate custodial sentence was inevitable.}{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13436424\charrsid13436424 It is clear fro
m the record that the trial Magistrate, in the length of sentence that he imposed, took into consideration everything that he could in favour of the appellant, including the fact that restitution was being made, and the term imposed is by no means excessi
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13436424\charrsid13436424 The appeal is dismissed.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13436424\charrsid11744960 Chief Justice
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13436424\charrsid13436424 Suva,
\par 28th April 1978.
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