Where a solicitor fails to place any substantive evidence of an offender's subjective circumstances before a sentencing court, the resulting deprivation constitutes a miscarriage of justice warranting admission of that evidence on appeal and resentencing, regardless of whether the evidence is characterised as 'fresh' or 'new'.
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