Read the full judgment text of CACC 000456/2004 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 February 2005.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against sentence. On 15 October 2004 the applicant, aged 23 years, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery before Gall J who sentenced him to a term of five years and four months’ imprisonment. A few days later, the applicant appeared before a magistrate and was sentenced to a term of fifteen months’ imprisonment for the offence of remaining in Hong Kong without authority, having landed unlawfully. Six months of that term was ordered to run consecu