A planned acid attack committed in company, with measures to avoid identification, involving restraint of the victim and deliberate application of acid causing burns, is a serious example of an offence under s.47 Crimes Act 1900 and does not fall towards the lower end of the range of seriousness. An erroneous Crown concession at first instance regarding objective seriousness does not bind the sentencing judge and will not necessarily lead the Court of Criminal Appeal to decline to intervene on discretionary grounds where the resulting sentence is unreasonable or plainly unjust. Where an offence is committed in breach of a suspended sentence and the offences are of entirely different types, a very substantial measure of accumulation is required.
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