The purposes of punishment in s 3A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 must be promoted within the limits of overarching common law sentencing principles, including totality and proportionality. A fully concurrent sentence that is entirely subsumed within an existing sentence is not manifestly inadequate where the existing criminality and punishment are so great that the totality principle leaves little or no room for additional penalty. The vulnerability aggravating factor in s 21A(2)(l) does not apply merely because the offence occurred in the offender's home or in the context of a relationship of trust, consistently with R v Tadrosse.
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