A person must not be sentenced to imprisonment unless the court is satisfied that having considered all possible alternatives, no penalty other than imprisonment is appropriate.
If you are sentenced to a period of imprisonment you have been convicted of the offence. t will appear on your criminal record.
In sentencing a person to imprisonment, a court will usually impose a ‘non parole period’. And, an additional period in which the offender once released from prison, will be supervised by probation and parole (the parole period). For the non-parole period to be less than three quarters of the head sentence the court is required to make a finding of special circumstances.
Special circumstances can include:
- Rehabilitation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First custodial sentence
- Ill health, disability or mental illness
- Accumulation of individual sentences
- Protective custody
- Long-term offenders
- Youth
- Hardship to family members in exceptional circumstances
- Self-punishment
- Parity with co-offender
- Sentencing for offences committed many years earlier
Testimonials
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Thank you to Joseph Harb and the Team at AC Law Group. We had an unwarranted AVO that was seriously affecting our family that the police refused to remove
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Georgia Christian • 11/02/2019
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Lauren Steck from AC Law Group helps me a lot with drink and drive offence. Excellent & friendly service, useful recommendation your case. Highly suggest!!
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Ruhong Liu • 11/02/2019
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amazing service
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Frankie Ramirez • 11/02/2019
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A massive thank you to Joseph correy and his team at AC law group. Last week my partner was found NOT GUILTY in a case that should never have
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Taliya Tuiono • 11/01/2019
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Best criminal lawyers in Sydney hands down. Much love to Deng and Joe for the great work they do. Never let me down.
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Neville Morgan • 11/01/2019
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My partner and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Joseph did amazing to help my partner escape conviction for a serious drug matter. Despite a very difficult magistate
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Jenny Carpenter • 10/22/2019
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Steven Mercael is by far the best lawyer i’ve dealt with. This guy does not lie. When he says something, he does it. I can’t recommend this guy enough.
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Tuaiki Suiva • 10/22/2019
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Steven mercael is the best in the field handsdown.
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NATIVE 2148 • 10/22/2019
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The team at AC Law gave my family our lives back. From the first call and at every stage after they were there with the right advice and looked
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Wayno Beav • 10/21/2019
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A huge Thanks to Joseph From AC Law Group for his outstanding professional approach to my case and providing me the best outcome I am extremely grateful to his
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Blake Morgan • 10/19/2019
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We would like to thank our solicitor Lauren Steck from AC Law Group, she was very helpful, professional and committed in achieving the best result for us. Lauren was
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Michael • 10/17/2019
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Very very thankful to Lauren. She is very kind to talk. Her way to explaining was great. And thanx Ac law group . Really great service
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