An appeal against conviction following a plea of guilty on the ground that the plea was induced by flawed legal advice requires the appellant to establish, to the civil standard, that the plea was not attributable to a genuine consciousness of guilt. Where the appellant's account of the advice is rejected on credibility grounds, no miscarriage of justice is demonstrated.
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