A sentencing judge dealing with multiple counts of systematic fraud may adopt a broad-brush categorisation approach based on the amount stolen without separately distinguishing between institutional and individual victims. The absence of personal hardship to an institutional victim is properly characterised as the absence of an aggravating circumstance rather than a mitigating factor. Sentences exceeding any previously imposed for the offence type may be justified where the nature and gravity of the conduct warrants it.
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