THE QUEEN v CHAN MAN-TAI

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1. This is the Applicant's application for leave to appeal against a sentence of 10 years imposed upon him for a robbery. The robbery was committed at about 12.20 p.m. on the 12th April 1984, at the Matauwai Road Branch of the Hong Kong Commercial Bank. Fortunately there were no customers inside the Bank at the time, and the bank staff were working behind the cashier counter. The lobby of the Bank was made of tile or stone floor, partitioned off by a marble counter behind which the staff worked,