Read the full judgment text of CACC 000340/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 November 1999.
1. This matter comes before us as an application for leave to appeal against conviction. However, on 9 June 1999, the Applicant pleaded guilty in the High Court before Deputy Judge Gill to three counts relating to drugs offences. He was sentenced on each count to concurrent terms of two years and three months' imprisonment. The broad basis of this application amounts to an attempt to have the pleas of guilty reversed because of the pressure which the Applicant alleges that his legal advisers, an