Under the draft guidelines, the current 'undue emphasis on premeditation' will be removed and the focus will switch to the harm caused and the culpability of the offender.

The majority went on to find that the trial judge placed undue emphasis on the last stage of the test.

But his critics describe a domineering bishop who places undue emphasis on the letter of the law at the expense of compassion.

An appellant must demonstrate that either the sentence imposed was demonstrably unfit or the court erred in principle, for example by placing undue emphasis on a particular sentence principle.

Some contended the program placed undue emphasis on assumed negative effects of cetacean predation on fishery resources while failing to address the effects of fisheries on cetaceans.