An appellant who has had a sentence appeal heard and determined will not be permitted to file a notice of appeal against conviction out of time without demonstrating extraordinary circumstances clearly proved. Any such application will be closely scrutinised and is likely to be refused unless demonstrably meritorious. The practice of splitting conviction and sentence appeals is deprecated as involving wasteful duplication of legal and judicial resources.
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