A sentencing judge's failure to backdate a sentence to reflect pre-sentence custody, or to give reasons for not doing so, does not constitute House v The King error where the judge expressly states the custody was taken into account. Challenges to assessments of objective seriousness require identification of specific House v The King error, not merely a differing assessment that could arguably have been made.
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