Lelikan (No 5) [2019] NSWSC 494

Lelikan (No 5) [2019] NSWSC 494

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Lelikan (No 5) [2019] NSWSC 494

ChapterMember terrorism organisation – background taken into account to reduce moral culpability: Bugmy v The Queen (2013) 249 CLR 571

Coram: McCallum J

  • Refugee status: at [6]. Several periods at refugee camp in Iraq: at [12].
  • Background taken into account to reduce moral culpability in accordance with principles in Bugmy v The Queen [2013] HCA 37; 249 CLR 571. Early experience of oppression, persecution and discrimination as a Kurd growing up in Turkey, personal experience of violence and torture, fleeing homeland for safety at tender age: at [87].
  • [Note: Crown sentence appeal (dismissed) R v Lelikan [2019] NSWCCA 316; (2019) 101 NSWLR 490].

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