Where a sentencing judge fails to separately quantify discounts for guilty plea, past assistance, and future assistance as required by s 23(4) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999, and the offender subsequently fails to fulfil an undertaking regarding future assistance, the CCA will attempt to construe the components of the global discount and, where that exercise cannot be achieved with complete accuracy, will make its own assessment. Hardship from protective custody arising from assistance is not a separate discount but is subsumed within the assistance discount.
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