Read the full judgment text of CACC 000018/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 April 2000.
1. The applicant pleaded guilty before a magistrate to four charges of robbery and he was transferred to the Court of First Instance of the High Court for sentence. On 22 December 1999 he appeared before Deputy Judge Wesley Wong when the judge sentenced him to 8 years' imprisonment. He now seeks leave to appeal against the sentence on the ground that it is too severe. He also told us this morning that he committed these offences because of financial hardship and he tendered his apologies to the