Contrition and remorse are features to be taken into account in determining the overall sentence, not by way of a separate quantified percentage discount additional to the statutory utilitarian discount under Division 1A of Part 3 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW). For proceedings commenced after 30 April 2018, s 25A(2) precludes any discount for utilitarian value other than that provided by Division 1A. A finding that an offence falls at a particular position within a notional range of objective seriousness does not mandate a sentence at any particular level within that range.
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