Read the full judgment text of CACC 000069/2001 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 July 2002.
1. This matter is presently listed before us as an application to treat the abandonment of an application for leave to appeal against a sentence of five years' imprisonment as a nullity. This was imposed in the District Court on 20 February 2001 by Judge W. Wong for an offence of trafficking in 4,991 tablets containing approximately 651 grammes of 3,4-methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine hydrochloride (MDMA, more commonly known as 'ecstasy') and two tablets containing 13 milligrammes of methamphetami