A robbery offence involving actual serious violence inflicted with a weapon, resulting in significant injuries, and committed in company, is substantially more serious than the typical R v Henry offence. The absence of permanent injury to a victim will rarely if at all be a mitigating factor. The residual discretion to dismiss a Crown appeal may be exercised where the respondent has made significant progress towards rehabilitation in custody and the parole date is imminent, even where the sentence is manifestly inadequate.
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