When sentencing for multiple offences that form part of a continuing series of transactions, the sentencing judge must give sufficient regard to the interconnected nature of all offences in the series when structuring cumulation and concurrence, not merely those offences that are most obviously connected. Failure to do so may result in an excessive total effective sentence even where individual sentences are not themselves excessive.
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