The filing of a new or substituted Information does not restart the calculation of time for the purposes of s 10C(2) of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act 1988 (SA); the section operates by reference to the defendant's first appearance in relation to 'the relevant offence or offences' as a matter of substance, not the Information as a matter of form. When utilising s 18A to impose a single sentence for a large number of offences committed during one venture involving complex multi-dimensional overlaps, the sentencing judge is not obliged to identify notional sentences for each offence and may apply instinctive synthesis holistically. The majority and dissent disagreed on the appropriate starting point (14 years vs 12 years) for extremely serious firearms offending involving theft and supply of 33 firearms.
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