Prosecutors appealing in record numbers as sentences fall 'clearly short of community standards'

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC in his office. Picture by Dion Georgopoulos

ACT prosecutors are filing a record number of appeals in a bid to address sentences their boss describes as falling "clearly short of community standards".

The strategy is so far proving fruitful, with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions succeeding in the majority of cases it took to the ACT Court of Appeal last financial year.