Sentencing Bench Book update 41 published

The following chapters have been revised in Update 41 of the Sentencing Bench Book:

• Deferral for rehabilitation or other purpose
• Setting terms of imprisonment
• Concurrent and consecutive sentences
• Parity
• Section 21A factors “in addition to” any Act or rule of law
• Guilty plea to be taken into account
• Court to take other matters into account (including pre-sentence custody)
• Victims and victim impact statements
• Taking further offences into account (Form 1 offences)
• Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987
• Sentencing Commonwealth offenders
• Dangerous driving and navigation
• Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) offences
• Robbery
• Sexual assault
• Commonwealth drug offences
• Appeals.