The case confirms that for bail pending appeal, the prospect of success must be higher than that required for leave to appeal — the appellant must show strong grounds for concluding the appeal would be allowed. Where the likely outcome of a successful appeal would be a reduction in sentence (rather than a suspended sentence), the prospect of the appellant still being within the non-parole period at the time of hearing may negate the exceptional reasons argument. A sentence of 18 months' imprisonment for attempting to pervert the course of justice involving a false police report as part of an insurance fraud, where a co-offender was wrongly charged for months, was held to be severe but not demonstrably outside the range of proper sentencing discretion.
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