Where an offender is sentenced to cumulative imprisonment without a non-parole period being fixed, s 15(1) of the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) requires that term to be served first, before the non-parole period fixed on an earlier sentence, with the practical effect that the cumulative term is added to both the head sentence and the period before parole eligibility. The Court of Appeal is not the appropriate forum to correct alleged errors in sentence calculation by the Sentence Calculation and Warrant Administration Division.
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