Where a defendant enters an unequivocal plea of guilty in the Magistrates Court, s 222(2)(c) of the Justices Act 1886 (Qld) confines any appeal to the District Court to penalty only, with no right of appeal against conviction. The striking out of a related charge does not render a guilty plea to a separate offence equivocal. A claim that a guilty plea resulted from wrong legal advice does not establish a miscarriage of justice where the defendant was of full age and sound mind and entered the plea in the exercise of free choice, and has not established that the advice was incorrect or bore on the plea.
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