Reference to Judicial Commission sentencing statistics is of limited value for dishonesty offences given the enormous variation in objective and subjective circumstances. An offender convicted of fraud offences cannot purchase mitigation by way of voluntary repayment; reparation does no more than require the return of ill-gotten gains. The absence of reparation is more a matter of aggravation than its presence is a matter of mitigation.
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