Failure to take into account the utilitarian value of a guilty plea when sentencing for a Commonwealth offence constitutes a substantive sentencing error requiring resentence afresh, not merely a corrective adjustment. A 25% discount for the utilitarian value of a guilty plea entered at the earliest opportunity is appropriate for Commonwealth offences, even though the NSW statutory discount regime does not directly apply.
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