The norm for mandatory imprisonment periods for Commonwealth offences remains 60-66% of the head sentence, departures requiring special circumstances. The maximum discount for plea of guilty and assistance is 40% where the offender will not serve in more onerous conditions, and 50% where they will, with exceptional circumstances required for any greater discount. Separate sentences must be imposed for separate offences in accordance with Pearce v R, even where the Crown submits otherwise. The question whether charging money-laundering offences arising necessarily from the same conduct as the substantive fraud offence raises double jeopardy issues was flagged but left open.
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