When sentencing for multiple offences under the transitional provisions of the Sentencing Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2003 (WA), the one-third statutory reduction should preferably be applied at the end of the sentencing process after totality has been considered, or alternatively a notional reconversion to pre-transitional terms should be undertaken to check whether the total sentence is appropriate. An 11-year effective sentence (equating to 16.5 years pre-transitional) was held to be crushing for a 22-year-old first-time prisoner.
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