Where a co-offender has received a finding of special circumstances on appeal resulting in a reduced non-parole period, and the applicant's personal circumstances are relevantly indistinguishable, the applicant may have a justifiable sense of grievance warranting adjustment of the non-parole period even where the head sentence is appropriate. Allegations that legal advisers counselled an offender to give false evidence must be established to the Briginshaw standard, having regard to the gravity of the allegation and the offender's own credibility.
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