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1. In a judgment handed down on 6 March 2013, we dismissed this applicant’s application for leave to appeal conviction and said that we would give an opportunity for submissions as to why an order should not be made that time spent pending the hearing of the application should not count towards the sentence imposed. Submissions on behalf of the applicant were filed in April but for reasons which are unclear, did not come to the attention of the Court until mid-July. Given that delay, which is no