The Court of Criminal Appeal exercised its power under the slip rule (r 36.17 UCPR and r 50C Criminal Appeal Rules) of its own motion to correct a patent arithmetic error in the calculation of pre-sentence credit, backdating the sentence commencement by an additional month. The correction was made without further submissions from the parties, the Court holding there could be no injustice to the Crown in correcting an obvious error.
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