In Queensland, the parity principle in sentencing does not extend to offenders who independently purchased drugs from the same wholesale supplier but were not co-offenders in a common criminal enterprise. A complaint that a sentencing judge gave inadequate weight to a particular consideration, as distinct from failing to take it into account, does not constitute appellable error in the House v The King sense. For street-level cannabis trafficking involving 16-20 pounds over approximately six months, a sentence of three years' imprisonment suspended after six months is within the permissible range.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 6 later cases that cite this judgment.
5 of the 6 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.