Sections 16(1A)(e) and (3C) of the Sentencing Act 1991 displace the presumption of concurrency for offences committed on bail but do not direct any particular cumulation order; a sentencing judge retains discretion to order concurrency and must ensure that cumulation within a presentment, combined with statutory cumulation between presentments, does not offend the totality principle. Where offences on a single presentment constitute a continuing episode of offending at a single location, ordering cumulation within that presentment in addition to statutory cumulation between presentments is likely to produce a disproportionate total effective sentence.
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