Penalty for perjun
PA Wellington "I fail to understand 'now anyone so apparently intelligent as you could think for a moment these offences could remain undiscovered,” said Mr Justice. Ongley in the Supreme Court at Wellington to a university lecturer, James Peter Paul Higgins, aged 36, who appeared for sentence after pleading guilty to forgery of a memorandum of land transfer and perjury.
Higgins Was sentenced to six months periodic de tention for perjury and fined $5OO for the forgery. He had pleaded guilty to being party to forgery by another person of his wife’s signature on a memorandum of transfer of their matrimonial home ai.d of telling the court when applying to have maintenance payments reduced that he and his wife still jointly owned the house.
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