The adoption of aggregate sentencing under s 53A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 does not relieve sentencing judges of the obligation to reflect considerations of accumulation between separate offences. An aggregate head sentence that is identical to the longest indicative head sentence, where separate and serious offences are involved, will be vulnerable to a finding of manifest inadequacy. Crown appeals under s 5D of the Criminal Appeal Act 1912 lie against the aggregate sentence pronounced, not against individual indicative sentences.
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