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MR JUSTICE NICKLIN: 1. The provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 apply to this offence. Under those provisions, where an allegation has been made that a sexual offence has been committed against a person, no matter relating to that person shall, during that person\u2019s lifetime, be included\u00a0in\u00a0any publication if it is likely to lead members of the public to identify that person as the victim of that offence. This prohibition applies unless waived or lifted in accordance with section 3 of the Act. 2. On 5\u00a0February 1996, in the Crown Court at Stafford, the Applicant (then aged 25) pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault on a female under the age of 14, contrary to s.14(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. On 26\u00a0June 1996, the Applicant was sentenced to 6 years\u2019 imprisonment. On 15\u00a0November 1996, the Applicant successfully appealed his sentence, which was reduced by the Court of Appeal to 5 years\u2019 imprisonment. The Applicant (now acting in person) has made an application for leave to appeal against his conviction. He also applies for an extension of time of 10,056 days. 3. It is not necessary to set out the facts of the offences to which the Applicant pleaded guilty. They are set out in the earlier Court of Appeal decision. 4. The Applicant seeks to advance the following grounds of appeal. First, as regards his sentence, the Applicant seeks to argue that false or misleading information has been recorded in relation to earlier allegations made against him. He argues, in summary, that there was a breach of process by the Staffordshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to his previous convictions. His Police National Computer Record included a conviction for an offence in 1988 in the Cannock Magistrates\u2019 Court, which had actually been dismissed by the magistrates. The Applicant alleges that the police \u201cdeliberately fabricated\u201d this entry and that the police and the CPS allowed this fraudulent information to be used when presenting the case to the judge in the trial below. This resulted, he says, in him concluding that the convictions were \u201cworse than they were\u201d and arriving at the sentence that he imposed. 5. As regards conviction, the Applicant first seeks to contend that the substantive allegation in relation to the second complainant was untrue and malicious. Second, he seeks to argue that his solicitor and counsel were incompetent, in that they failed to challenge false or misleading information about his previous convictions. Third, he seeks to argue that his legal representatives were given insufficient details of the allegations against him. The Applicant alleges that his solicitor was incompetent and that he failed to challenge allegations which he says were clearly fabricated. The Applicant was only charged with one of the counts on the indictment due to his solicitor\u2019s incompetence, he claims, and, if his solicitor had represented him appropriately, then this allegation would not have gone beyond the investigation stage. Finally, the Applicant seeks to argue that his solicitor told him to plead guilty because he had \u201cno standing\u201d. 6. In view of the criticisms made of his trial counsel and solicitors the Applicant was invited to, and did, waive privilege. Comments were therefore sought from his trial solicitors and counsel. Given that the events took place over 28 years ago, and the legal representatives no longer having access to any of their papers, they were therefore unable to offer any comment on the complaints made against them by the Applicant. 7. The Crown has filed a Respondent\u2019s Notice. In it, the prosecution accepts that a recording error was made in respect of\u00a0the outcome of\u00a0the proceedings on 5 December 1988 at Cannock Magistrates\u2019 Court. It appears from the Respondent\u2019s Notice that the record may still be inaccurate. If not already corrected, the Crown should take steps to ensure that the record of the Applicant\u2019s previous convictions is accurate. The Applicant might have other avenues of redress were his conviction data shown to be inaccurate. Nevertheless, the respondent submits that in substance the Applicant\u2019s complaint is a renewed challenge against his sentence, namely that the sentencing judge considered his offending to be more serious than it was because of the mis-recording of\u00a0the 1988 matter. An appeal in relation to sentence has already been determined and the Crown submission therefore is the Court of Appeal is therefore functus officio and none of the grounds for reopening the determination of an appeal set out in Criminal Procedure Rules 50.27 apply in this case. Finally, the Crown contends that the grounds of appeal disclose no arguable basis for asserting that the Applicant\u2019s convictions, through his guilty pleas, were unsafe. 8. Refusing leave to appeal conviction, the single\u00a0judge gave the following reasons: \u201cI have considered the papers in your case and your grounds of appeal. The form of appeal sought is leave to appeal against conviction. However [1] you pleaded guilty to both counts and there is no basis for considering the pleas equivocal and [2] you advance no basis on which there could be any doubt about the convictions. The complaints advanced relate to the wrong citation of previous convictions in the sentencing process. There is no basis for alleging corruption or malice by the police, rather than an error of bureaucracy. Even if it is accepted that such an error was made, this could not form the basis of a successful appeal. The first reason for that is technical: you have already had a successful appeal on sentence, and that court\u2019s function is finished and cannot be re-opened. The second reason is not technical. The reasoning of the Court of Appeal in reducing your sentence to 5 years, and the analysis of the sentencing judge in imposing the sentence he did, did not turn on the erroneous record of convictions, but on a detailed analysis of the offending and of your attitudes in your response to with the probation service and by the reporting clinical psychologist. The key was your distorted thinking. The judgment of the Court in 1996 makes that entirely clear.\u201d 9. We agree with the single judge. There is no substance to the Applicant\u2019s renewed\u00a0complaint about his sentence and a further appeal is barred because he successfully appealed the sentence in 1996 and it would appear that none of\u00a0the grounds in Criminal Procedure Rules 50.27 apply to the Applicant\u2019s case. 10. The single\u00a0judge did not deal with the complaints made by the Applicant about his legal representatives which are advanced in his challenge against his conviction. The Applicant seeks to challenge events that took place over 28 years ago. He has provided no adequate explanation for the delay. In his grounds of appeal the Applicant claims that his delay is explained by what he alleges to be the deliberate withholding of information about mistakes on his criminal record. However, that does not explain the delay in bringing forward his complaints about his legal representatives. The delay is substantial and, as the fruitless inquiries with his legal representatives at his original trial demonstrate, it means it is now impossible to adjudicate fairly upon these complaints. The Applicant bears responsibility for this. Had he brought forward his complaints about his convictions and his claims that he had been badly served and advise by his legal representatives in 1996, when his appeal against sentence was being considered, it may have been possible to adjudicate upon those complaints. At this distance it is now impossible. 11. For those reasons, we refuse the Applicant\u2019s application for an extension of time. The effect will be that his renewed application for leave to appeal is refused. Epiq Europe Ltd hereby certify that the above is an accurate and complete record of the proceedings or part thereof. Lower Ground, 46 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JE Tel No: 020 7404 1400 Email: rcj@epiqglobal.co.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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