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NK v R [2025] NSWCCA 73

In this decision the CCA has observed that, although general deterrence and an offender’s deprived upbringing may pull in opposite directions in sentencing, it is not correct to say that an increased need for general deterrence renders an offender’s reduced moral culpability irrelevant.

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