The case confirms that bail pending appeal requires exceptional circumstances, ordinarily including strong grounds for concluding the appeal will be allowed and that an unacceptable portion of the sentence may be served before the appeal is heard, but these are not rigid prerequisites and the discretion must be exercised having regard to all relevant circumstances. The shortness of the remaining custodial term and the proximity of the appeal hearing date are legitimate considerations. Offences involving harassment constituted by a course of conduct (multiple emails or phone calls) are not bad for duplicity merely because each individual act could have been charged separately.
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