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1. On 14th February 1984 Wong Muk-ping was convicted by Deputy Judge O’Dea of an offence of conspiring to traffick in dangerous drugs and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. He successfully sought leave from the Court of Appeal to appeal against that conviction. He had applied in the alternative for leave to appeal against sentence. The hearing was treated as the hearing of the appeal and, on 18th October 1984, the conviction was quashed. So, consequentially, was the sentence; both in my opinio