Non-compliance with s 13(3) of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld) does not inevitably require a sentence to be reviewed, but where the sentencing remarks contain no reference to guilty pleas and no apparent credit is given for them, the Court of Appeal will intervene. Limited guilty pleas where the basis of the plea is rejected by the jury warrant only modest credit, which may be reflected in a parole eligibility date slightly earlier than the statutory halfway point rather than at the conventional one-third mark.
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