Where the Crown concedes at first instance that sentences should be concurrent, the Court of Criminal Appeal will decline to intervene to impose cumulation even where the sentencing judge's failure to consider cumulation constituted error under Pearce v The Queen. The s 16G one-third adjustment remains the norm but is not invariable. A non-parole period of 50% of the head sentence for a first offender in a revenue fraud case, while lenient, does not of itself warrant appellate intervention where the practical difference from the usual 60-66% range is small.
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