Section 78BA of the Sentencing Act (NT) does not mandate imprisonment where the second violent offence was committed before the offender was found guilty of the first violent offence. The long-established canon of construction that a 'second offence' means an offence committed after conviction for the first applies to s 78BA and has not been displaced by the legislature. D v Gokel is no longer good law on this point.
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