Practitioners in the ACT should note that s 10(2) of the Crimes (Sentencing) Act relates only to whether imprisonment is the only appropriate penalty, not to whether it should be suspended; and that Crown appeals asserting manifest inadequacy should not be particularised by reference to weighting errors by the sentencing judge.
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