An offender's right to credit for time spent in residential rehabilitation (quasi custody) is not forfeited by the failure of legal representatives to explicitly request backdating or reduction at sentence. Where a sentencing judge states an intention to take quasi custody into account but the sentence does not reflect that intention, appellate intervention is warranted. The 'reverse engineering' approach — inferring a guilty plea discount from mathematical calculation — remains an inadequate basis for drawing such an inference, following Edwards v R.
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