An offender who provides significant assistance to authorities is entitled to a sentencing discount even where the assistance relates to matters entirely unrelated to the offender's own offending. Where prior sentencing courts in other jurisdictions have failed to give due recognition to such assistance, a subsequent sentencing court applying the Mill v The Queen totality principle must account for that failure when determining the appropriate sentence.
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