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1. The applicant Cheung Ping-kei was convicted in the High Court on the 2nd of February 1982 of the murder of a man called Ng Chi. He subsequently sought leave to appeal against conviction out of time. This application was refused by the Court of Appeal on the 8th of November 1982, Sir Alan Huggins, V.-P., pointing out that in the case of a conviction on a charge involving capital punishment, the court - under the law as it still persists in this territory - has no power to extend the time for l