Form 1 matters must be factored into the total sentence for the principal offence before any discount for a guilty plea is applied; adding Form 1 matters after the discount is an error of principle. Where accumulation of sentences causes the non-parole period to exceed 75% of the total sentence, the sentencing judge must expressly acknowledge this consequence; absence of such acknowledgment will lead to an inference that the departure was inadvertent and constitutes error. The use of 'beyond reasonable doubt' in rejecting an offender's evidence on sentencing, while infelicitous, does not necessarily constitute error if the remarks on sentence as a whole demonstrate an emphatic rejection of the offender's account rather than a misapprehension as to the applicable standard of proof.
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