A sentencing judge must deliver reasons contemporaneously with the pronouncement of sentence. A delay of almost three months between sentence and reasons constitutes a miscarriage of justice rendering the sentence liable to be quashed. The principle in Lawrence v The King that sentence must be passed in the presence of the accused applies to serious indictable offences following the abolition of the felony/misdemeanour distinction. Sentences endorsed on court documents in the absence of the accused are invalid.
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