A sentencing judge may consider the accused's role in creating the dishonest culture of a business when assessing the objective gravity of their offending within that business, without breaching the [name withheld] principle, provided the judge does not sentence the accused for the offending of others. COVID-19 does not create a special principle that, where a person is on the cusp of imprisonment, presents a powerful reason not to impose a custodial sentence; rather, it takes its place in the sentencing calculus alongside all other relevant considerations. The parity principle requires a comparative exercise involving qualitative and discretionary judgments, and disparity must be so marked or manifest as not to be reasonably open to the sentencing judge before appellate intervention is warranted.
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