The court confirmed that s 25A of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 was designed for persistent suppliers of relatively small amounts, not for supplies of commercial quantities. An offender cannot establish a justifiable sense of grievance for parity purposes where the co-offender's sentence was manifestly inadequate. A sentencing judge's statement of the wrong maximum penalty, combined with imposition of the same sentence on counts of differing seriousness, warranted appellate intervention on the less serious count.
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