A complaint that the sentencing judge gave too much or too little weight to a particular sentencing factor, or erred in assessing the relative seriousness of the offence, is not properly a ground of specific error but should be advanced under the manifest excess ground. The sentence of 13 years' imprisonment imposed in Ristevski forms part of current sentencing practice for manslaughter by unlawful and dangerous act and is not an outlier. Where an offender's misogynistic views are directly linked to the manner of the offending, those views are highly relevant to moral culpability and to the sentencing considerations of denunciation, general and specific deterrence, protection of the community, prospects of rehabilitation, and remorse.
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