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1. The applicant was convicted of murder and attempted robbery after trial before Leong J. (as he then was). He was sentenced on 4th August 1995 to life imprisonment on the murder offence and to five years concurrent on the robbery offence. He appealed against his conviction submitting that the trial judge had failed to direct the jury as to self-defence and provocation. His appeal was dismissed.