A conviction entered on a guilty plea may be set aside as a miscarriage of justice where the sole factual premise for the plea is subsequently demonstrated to be false by acquittal on re-trial, and the plea was not a fully informed forensic choice. The established categories of miscarriage of justice following a guilty plea do not exhaust the Court's jurisdiction.
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