Following Pearce v The Queen, sentencing judges must fix an appropriate sentence for each individual offence reflecting its own criminality before considering accumulation, concurrence or totality. Pre-Pearce practices of using a lead count or imposing uniform sentences across all counts are no longer appropriate. Where an offender provides substantial assistance on some offences but is selective on others, differential discounts should be applied rather than a uniform discount across all offences. A 50% discount for assistance is at the very top of the available range even where assistance is substantial, and cannot be justified where the offender has been selective in disclosure.
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