The totality principle requires that the total effective sentence bear a proper relationship to the overall criminality, and this applies equally to driver's licence disqualification orders as to terms of imprisonment. A sentencing judge who fails to specifically address totality in relation to cumulative disqualification orders may be found to have erred. The respondent's concession that disqualification periods were excessive was accepted by the Court.
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