A sentencing judge must fully identify the facts, matters and circumstances bearing on the assessment of objective seriousness, rather than merely expressing conclusions in terms of where offending falls on a notional range. Factual errors and omissions in summarising agreed facts that affect the assessment of objective seriousness constitute significant deficiencies. The totality principle must not be applied so as to allow an offender to escape effective punishment for successive offences committed throughout a sustained course of deliberate offending against multiple victims.
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