Read the full judgment text of CACC 000312/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 February 1995.
1. The applicant pleaded guilty before Deputy Judge Thomas in the District Court to one charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug, namely 5.33 kilogrammes of cannabis and was sentenced to two years and four months' imprisonment. He applied for leave to appeal against that sentence and appeared before this court on 10 February this year when he asserted that he had told his legal advisers that, although he had gone to the speedpost collection centre at Tsimshatsui post office and had presented a