The requirement from AWKO v R and R v Knight & Biuvanua for sentencing judges to specify with particularity where objective seriousness lies in relation to the mid-range was specific to the two-stage approach to standard non-parole period sentencing rejected by the High Court in Muldrock v The Queen, and does not impose a general requirement beyond the long-recognised necessity to assess objective gravity. Where fixed terms are erroneously imposed for offences carrying standard non-parole periods, the appropriate remedy is to treat the fixed term as a non-parole period and add a balance of term complying with the statutory proportion.
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