Guernsey Judgment 41/2008 - Y Climie & S Greechan

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Importation of Class A drug - applications for leave to appeal against sentence - abandonment of application by the second applicant - similar sentences imposed by the Royal Court on all the defendants, as willing participants in a joint enterprise - submission of objectionable parity not upheld - starting point of 11 years approved as in accordance with the Richards guidelines - legal aid granted, but limited to the actual attendance by counsel before the Court of Appeal - no guarantee that legal aid will be granted where an application for leave is dismissed by the plenary Court, after a refusal by a single judge