Read the full judgment text of CACC 000278/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 June 1999.
1. This matter was originally listed before us as an application for leave to appeal against sentence out of time. However, when the matter came on, Mr Simon Tam for Director of Public Prosecutions informed us that the applicant had originally in 1997 applied for leave to appeal against sentence and later abandoned it. It transpired from what Mr Tam informed us very properly that the applicant appears to have done so in the context of the Legal Aid Department refusing him legal aid. Plainly that