In New South Wales, sentencing courts may continue to separately quantify the discount for a plea of guilty and to take into account the objective utilitarian value of the plea, notwithstanding the High Court's decisions in Wong v The Queen and Cameron v The Queen. Section 22 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) has modified the common law so that the subjective 'willingness to facilitate the course of justice' rationale from Cameron does not apply to the exclusion of objective considerations. The utilitarian discount range of 10-25% established in R v Thomson remains applicable. For armed robbery in company, a combined discount of 62.5% for plea and assistance was held excessive.
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