Where a sentencing judge's own findings demonstrate an offender's contempt for the law and lack of insight into behaviour, a finding that specific deterrence has only 'limited significance' is inconsistent with those findings and constitutes appealable error. An accumulation of only 3 months on sentences for affray and manslaughter arising from the same incident was inadequate where the offences, though overlapping in circumstances, involved distinct criminality — particularly where the manslaughter victim was an innocent bystander unconnected to the affray.
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