Where a sentencing judge imposes anomalously different sentences for indistinguishable offences without explanation, this constitutes a failure to fix appropriate individual sentences as required by Pearce v The Queen. A sentencing judge's failure to take into account that offences are Table 1 matters capable of being dealt with in the Local Court (with a 2-year maximum) is an error justifying appellate intervention, particularly where the offences are assessed as below mid-range seriousness.
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