Where a sentencing judge for a Commonwealth offence applied the pre-Totaan requirement that family hardship be 'exceptional' before it could reduce a sentence, the sentence will be quashed and the offender resentenced, with the probable effect on family and dependants taken into account without any threshold requirement.
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