Sentencing procedures for imprisonment

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Sentencing procedures for imprisonment

Setting terms of imprisonment

[7-500] Court to set non-parole period
[7-505] Aggregate sentences
[7-507] Settled propositions concerning s 53A
[7-510] Special circumstances under s 44(2) or (2B)
[7-512] Special circumstances generally
[7-514] What constitutes special circumstances?
[7-516] Giving effect to finding of special circumstances
[7-518] Empirical study of special circumstances
[7-520] Court may decline to set non-parole period
[7-530] Court not to set non-parole period for sentence of 6 months or less
[7-540] Commencement of sentence
[7-545] Rounding sentences to months
[7-547] Forward dating sentences of imprisonment
[7-550] Information about release date
[7-560] Restrictions on term of sentence
[7-570] Court not to make parole orders
[7-580] No power to impose conditions on parole orders
[7-590] Warrant of commitment
[7-600] Exclusions from Division

Standard non-parole period offences — Pt 4 Div 1A

[7-890] What is the standard non-parole period?
[7-900] Consideration of the standard non-parole period in sentencing
[7-920] Findings as to where an offence fits relative to the middle of the range
[7-930] Exclusions and inclusions from Pt 4 Div 1A
[7-940] Use of cases decided before Muldrock v The Queen
[7-950] Fixed terms and aggregate sentences
[7-960] Court to give reasons if non-custodial sentence imposed
[7-970] Brief history of Pt 4 Div 1A
[7-980] Correcting sentences imposed pre-Muldrock
[7-990] Further reading

Appendix A: Pt 4 Div 1A Table — standard non-parole periods

[8-000] Appendix A: Pt 4 Div 1A Table — Standard non-parole periods

Appendix B: Legislative amendments relevant to Pt 4 Div 1A Table — standard non-parole periods

[8-100] Appendix B: Legislative amendments relevant to Pt 4 Div 1A Table — standard non-parole periods

Concurrent and consecutive sentences

[8-200] The principle of totality
[8-210] Applications of the totality principle
[8-220] Totality and sentences of imprisonment
[8-230] Structuring sentences of imprisonment and totality
[8-240] Sentences for offences involving assault by convicted inmate
[8-250] Sentences for offences involving escape by inmate
[8-260] Limitation on consecutive sentences imposed by Local Courts
[8-270] Power to vary commencement of sentence
[8-280] Application of Division to interstate sentences of imprisonment

Mandatory life sentences under s 61

[8-600] Availability
[8-610] Application
[8-620] Extreme culpability
[8-630] Comparison with common law cases that attract the maximum
[8-640] Multiple offences

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