Sentencing Bench Book Update 40 published

Update 40 of the Sentencing Bench Book includes substantive amendments to the following chapters:

• Procedural fairness
• Obligations of parties
• Setting terms of imprisonment
• Court to take other matters into account (including pre-sentence custody)
• Sentencing Commonwealth offenders
• Particular offences – including Break and enter offences, Dangerous driving and navigation, Detain for advantage/kidnapping, Manslaughter and infanticide, Assault, wounding and related offences, Money laundering, Conspiracy
• Appeals
• Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990.