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1. This application comes before the court in slightly unusual circumstances. The Applicant seeks leave to appeal against sentence out of time, having been sentenced on 9th July 1998 by Judge Davies in the District Court to a total of three years' imprisonment for trafficking in heroin hydrochloride on two separate dates in June 1997. However, by the time this sentence was imposed, the Applicant was already serving eighteen months' imprisonment as the result of a conviction and sentence in Tsuen