A guilty plea entered in the exercise of a free and informed choice based on competent legal advice will not give rise to a miscarriage of justice, even where the applicant later contends that counsel pressured them into pleading guilty, particularly where the contention is unsupported by evidence and there was a strong independent evidentiary case. An application for extension of time to appeal brought 14 years late with no satisfactory explanation for the delay and no prospects of success will be refused.
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