Family violence offences do not attract a separate or more severe sentencing regime in the ACT; the usual sentencing principles apply and factors commonly associated with family violence are taken into account because they attach to the particular offending conduct, not because of the 'family violence' label. A partly suspended sentence under s 12 of the Sentencing Act does not involve the de facto fixing of a nonparole period, and there is no 'usual relationship' between the part served and the part suspended. The Court may decline to resentence on a Crown appeal even where manifest inadequacy is established, where the appeal raises no point of principle and resentencing would be of limited precedent value.
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