When a District Court sentences for related offences brought before it under s 166 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW), indicative sentences for those offences must not exceed the 2-year jurisdictional limit of the Local Court. An indicative sentence exceeding that limit constitutes an irrelevant consideration vitiating the aggregate sentence. Where error is identified but the Court on resentencing would have imposed a higher sentence, the appeal will be dismissed in the absence of a Parker warning.
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