A sentencing judge must impose separate sentences for offences of significantly different character and maximum penalties, and cannot impose a single global sentence. A finding that an offender is at a 'cross roads' in life justifying leniency requires a proper evidentiary foundation and cannot rest primarily on unsworn assertions from the bar table. The aggravating factor of offending while on conditional liberty applies only to the specific offence committed during the period of conditional liberty, not to all offences sentenced together.
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