A carefully made and evidently painstaking conclusion on credit by a trial judge after a lengthy trial is exceptionally difficult to gainsay on appeal, particularly where the trial judge had the advantage of day-by-day absorption of evidence over weeks. Where a proposed appeal attacks fundamental factual findings root and branch without identifying a self-evident flaw in the trial judge's reasoning, the appeal has no reasonable prospects of success. A three-month delay in filing a notice of appeal, with no notice to respondents and specific prejudice, combined with no reasonable prospects of success, warrants refusal of an extension of time.
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