Where delay in prosecuting a criminal appeal is attributable to administrative shortcomings of legal aid rather than the applicant's own dilatoriness, and the substantive appeal has sound prospects of success, the interests of justice will ordinarily require the grant of an extension of time. A total effective sentence of 9 years with a 7-year non-parole period for five counts of incest committed over two days against a 17-year-old daughter was manifestly excessive where the offender had no prior convictions, pleaded guilty early, showed genuine remorse, and had good rehabilitation prospects; a total effective sentence of 7 years with a 4½-year non-parole period was substituted.
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