The AB v The Queen principle (that confessions of unknown criminal conduct warrant more lenient treatment) has limited application where the offender only confessed after comprehensive denials and after being confronted with strong evidence, and where authorities had sufficient evidence to charge without the admissions. When a sentencing judge has sentenced multiple offenders from the same police operation, procedural fairness does not require that all prior sentencing remarks be provided to defence counsel, provided counsel is sufficiently appraised of the relevant features of any particular sentence relied upon and no actual disadvantage is demonstrated.
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