Post-sentence transgender status and associated custodial management conditions do not constitute exceptional circumstances permitting reliance on post-sentence events on a sentence appeal. An applicant who received prudent legal advice to plead guilty, and who instructed counsel that she deliberately committed the act, cannot demonstrate miscarriage of justice merely by asserting that alternative defences should have been pursued.
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