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R v Obbens [2022] NSWCCA 109

In this judgment the Court of Criminal Appeal (‘CCA’) has said that the focus when sentencing an offender for fresh sentences which overlap a stale sentence imposed some time ago, the focus is on the totality of the sentence at the time it is imposed. In other words, the question is what the appropr

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