Astone v WA

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Drug offences
  4. › Totality principle
  5. › First limb
  6. › Whether total effective sentence bears proper relationship to overall criminality
  7. › Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 (WA), s 6(1)(a), s 6(1)(c)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Drug offences
  4. › Parity principle
  5. › Co-offenders sentenced for offences relating to same drugs
  6. › Whether lack of disparity in individual sentences gives rise to objectively justifiable sense of grievance
  7. › Whether comparison of total effective sentences is more appropriate comparator where co-offenders convicted of different numbers of offences
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Drug offences
  4. › Mitigating factors
  5. › Whether distinction between offending for own financial benefit and for benefit of family member is material
  6. › Whether motivation to protect family member from drug-related violence fundamentally alters culpability

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