Key legal question
Whether lex mitior required applying the older, milder sanction regime to continuous illegal stay from 2006 to 2011.
Extracted holding
No. For continuous illegal stay, the new law applies to the whole conduct; only the changed penalty regime is relevant, and mixed application of old and new law is not allowed.
Extracted reasoning
Illegal stay is a continuous offence. When only sanctions change during its commission, the later law governs the whole offence; attenuation is considered only in sentencing.